The COVID-19 pandemic won't be our last&md ash\;because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also makes us human. Th at is the uncomfortable but all-too-timely message of \;The Human Dise ase: How We Create Pandemics\, From Our Bodies to Our Beliefs\, which trav els through history and around the globe to examine how and why pandemics are an inescapable threat of our own making. Drawing on dozens of discipli nes&mdash\;from medicine\, epidemiology\, and microbiology to anthropology \, sociology\, ecology\, and neuroscience&mdash\;as well as a unique exper tise in public education about emerging infectious diseases\, biological a nthropologist Sabrina Sholts identifies the human traits and tendencies th at double as pandemic liabilities\, from the anatomy that defines us to th e misperceptions that divide us.
\n\;Weaving together a wealth of personal experiences\, scientific findings\, and historical stories\, S holts brings dramatic and much-needed clarity to one of the most profound challenges we face as a species. Though the COVID-19 pandemic looms large in Sholts's account\, it is\, in fact\, just one of the many infectious di sease events explored in \;The Human Disease. With its expansive\, evo lutionary perspective\, the book explains how humanity will continue to fa ce new pandemics because \;humans cause them\, by the ways that we are and the things that we do. By recognizing our risks\, Sholts suggests\, w e can take actions to reduce them. When the next pandemic happens\, and ho w bad it becomes\, are largely within our highly capable human hands&mdash \;and will be determined by what we do with our extraordinary human brains . A presentation you don&rsquo\;t want to miss\, register now!
\nAbo ut the Author:
\nSabrina Sholts is a biological anthropologist and C urator of Biological Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Her research explores intersections of human\, ani mal\, and environmental health in the past and present. She received her P hD in Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara and was a postdoctoral researcher a t UC Berkeley in Integrative Biology and at Stockholm University in Biophy sics and Biochemistry. Sholts has published widely in academic journals in cluding \;American Journal of Biological Anthropology\, \;Environm ental Health Perspectives\, \;JAMA\, PNAS\, \;Scientific Reports\, \;Proceedings of the Royal Society B\, and \;Nature Ecology &\ ; Evolution\, and written for popular audiences in \;Scientific Americ an \;and \;Smithsonian Magazine. She was named as a World Economic Forum Young Scientist in 2019. In addition\, she was Lead Curator of the exhibition \;Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World \;at the NMN H \;(2018-2022) and a scientific advisor for the related exhibition&nb sp\;É\;pidé\;mies: \;Prendre soin du vivant \;at the m usé\;e des Confluences in Lyon\, France \;(2024-2025)
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