‘Managing the Modern Infodemic: How the new social media are complicating old public health problems’ with Distinguished Professor of History, Nancy Tomes.
‘Managing the Modern Infodemic: How the new social media are complicating old public
health problems’ with Distinguished Professor of History, Nancy Tomes.
Glasgow Caledonian University invites you to join the Centre for the Social History
of Health and Healthcare's (CSHHH) Annual Lecture, taking place online on Tuesday 5th October 2021.
Professor Tomes is the State University of New York (SUNY) Distinguished Professor
of History at Stony Brook University. She is the author of four books, including The
Gospel of Germs: Men, Women and the Microbe in American Life (Harvard, 1998), winner
of both the American Association for the History of Medicine’s Welch medal and the
History of Science Society’s Davis prize; and Remaking the American Patient: How Madison
Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers (UNC Press, 2016), winner
of the 2017 Bancroft Prize. In 2011, she received the American Public Health Association’s
Arthur Viseltear Award for her “distinguished body of scholarship in the history of
public health.” Professor Tomes is currently working on a new research project about
the historical origins of the modern “infodemic.”
Her lecture, ‘Managing the Modern Infodemic: How the new social media are complicating
old public health problems’ will explore the origins and uses of the word blend "infodemic"
(information plus epidemic) to reflect on how new information technologies have transformed
public health messaging in the past half century.
Date: Tuesday 5th October 2021
Time: 5pm – 6.15pm (GMT) and 12pm – 1.15pm (EST).
Register here
