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Episode 4: Contagion (part one)
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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 India.
Sources and links
A Planet of Viruses, Carl Zimmer
Patricia Sauthoff is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta with the The AyurYog project.
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Manage episode 257751067 series 2630073
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 India.
Sources and links
A Planet of Viruses, Carl Zimmer
Patricia Sauthoff is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta with the The AyurYog project.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/malcolm-keating/support39 episodes
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