By the time the Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency in response to monkeypox last week, there were already nearly 7,000 cases in the U.S. Microbiologist Joseph Osmundson joins The Intercept’s Maia Hibbett to discuss the failings of U.S. medical infrastructure in confronting this latest viral epidemic. They also discuss his book “Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between,” which uses queer theory to shed a novel light on our understanding of the viruses that shape our lives.
Transcript coming soon.
This content originally appeared on The Intercept and was authored by Deconstructed.
Deconstructed | Radio Free (2022-08-11T10:00:03+00:00) Biomedical Racism, Queer Theory, and the Monkeypox Epidemic. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2022/08/11/biomedical-racism-queer-theory-and-the-monkeypox-epidemic/
Please log in to upload a file.
There are no updates yet.
Click the Upload button above to add an update.