Pandemic Perspectives

In 2022 Howard Burton launched the Pandemic Perspectives Project: a documentary film, podcast series and this engagingly candid collection of essays that chart his personal quest to make some sense of the COVID-19 pandemic through his interaction with a diverse array of 32 experts.
Directly inspired by the award-winning writer, physician and self-professed "biology watcher" Lewis Thomas, Howard takes us on a thought-provoking tour of a wide range of key societal issues, from biology to politics to contemporary morality.
Examples of societal issues that are examined:The need to rethink current educational practices
The future of scientific research
The challenges of making evidence-based public policy in an age of rapid information and misinformation
The widespread confusion about how science actually works
The importance of balancing basic and applied research
The implications for coherently addressing climate change
The tension between individual liberties and communitarian ideals
The need to critically evaluate the level of care in our society
The importance of looking at history during a time of crisis
The perils of nationalism and the necessity of thinking globally
To what extent the pandemic has revealed our true moral nature
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