Wellness Radio With Dr. J

Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Edna Bonhomme, author of A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19, to explore the reactions in society from the unknown virus, bacteria, or plague of the moment.A look through history in healthcare, pandemics, therapies and treatments that we have explored through the centuries where people were changed through survival of the fittest.What were the human body events that could have wiped us off the map, but they didn’t? How did people learn more about bacteria, viruses, and human constitution to stop the progression of disease for the moment and heal those who would take a leap to use the current forms of possible cure?What did we learn from history about the expansion of our human knowledge, collective support, and survival instincts to be present on the earth through eons?Do you have control over all the attacks from the outside and are protected with all the new technology and knowledge in our current deca