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Friday, May 1, 2009

The Low Down on Swine Flu and the Origins of Alternative Medicine

Swine Flu! Mexico City is shut down, every last pig in Egypt is to be slaughtered -- some say arbitrarily -- and Catholic Churches in Chicago and Florida have suspended the sharing of communion wine and The World Health Organization has boosted Pandemic Alert level to the second highest level, Phase 5.

Merrill Singer, Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention and at the Center for Health Communication and Marketing at the University of Connecticut relates his ground breaking theory of ecosyndemics--the exacerbating, or synergistic relationship between diseases and environments--to explain the swine flu epidemic.

Broadcast on 5/1/09.

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Medical Anthropologist and author of Ethnomedicine discusses her book and the role of alternative medicine in contemporary Western medicine.

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Intro and Outro music: Matthew Shipp.

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