Robert Peckham

Robert Peckham is the MB Lee Professor in Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, and the author of Epidemics in Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press)

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The contagious power of fear: why some believe that panic is a virus
Panic evokes the past, as well as offering nightmarish visions of the future.

By Robert Peckham
11 March