Tag: disease
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Episode 5: Contagion (part two)
Summary Love, happiness, and disease. These are a few things that today we call “contagious.” But how did thinkers in the Indian subcontinent, before the discovery of viruses, understand diseases and their treatment? This podcast is part two of a two-part interview with Patricia Sauthoff, an expert in the history of alchemy and medicine in…
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Episode 4: Contagion (part one)
Summary Love, happiness, and disease. These are a few things that today we call “contagious.” But how did thinkers in the Indian subcontinent, before the discovery of viruses, understand diseases and their treatment? This podcast is part one of a two-part interview with Patricia Sauthoff, an expert in the history of alchemy and medicine in…