Publisher's Synopsis
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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