UNC Department of Family Medicine

Here's To Your Health

This weekend, Dr. Philip Alcabes, joins DFM's Here's to Your Health to discuss his book, Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics.

Dr. Alcabes is an Associate Professor of Public Health at Hunter College and the Doctoral Schools, both in the City University of New York. Trained as an epidemiologist, he now studies public health history, policy, and ethics. His articles, essays, and op-eds have appeared in numerous publications, from peer-reviewed journals to newspapers. His new book Dread (PublicAffairs, 2009) examines how the human response to disease through history reveals hidden fears of social collapse, racial pollution, and moral decay.

We hope you can tune in either Saturday at 9am, Sunday at 9am and 5 pm, or Monday at 6pm and 10pm on WCHL 1360AM.

You can also listen to any past shows by going to the HTYH DFM website: http://www.med.unc.edu/fammed/htyh/listen