Robert Peckham

Robert Peckham is MB Lee Professor in the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, where he is concurrently chair of the Department of History and founding director of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research focuses on the social and political dimensions of pandemic disease. He is the author of Epidemics in Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

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Robert Peckham

War of the Worlds: Covid-19 and Pandemic Belligerence

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