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The 2020 Berlin Family Lectures with Danielle Allen
"Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus"
Lecture three: "Federalism Is An Asset"
May 19, 2020
Public health experts rightly rely on collective quarantine as a fundamental tool of disease control. But what about when collective quarantine is used so broadly as to become national quarantine? Is it still a viable public health tool, or do we need an alternative? Can testing, tracing, and isolating individual cases at mass scale be a substitute tool?
This is the third lecture in a four-lecture series presented in the spring of 2020 at the University of Chicago.
Named for Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin, the Berlin Family Lectures bring leading scholars, writers, and creative artists from around the world to the University of Chicago. Each visitor offers an extended series of lectures with the aim of interacting with the university community and developing a book for publication with the University of Chicago Press. Learn more at http://berlinfamilylectures.uchicago.edu.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to humanities@uchicago.edu.
The 2020 Berlin Family Lectures with Danielle Allen
"Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus"
Lecture three: "Federalism Is An Asset"
May 19, 2020
Public health experts rightly rely on collective quarantine as a fundamental tool of disease control. But what about when collective quarantine is used so broadly as to become national quarantine? Is it still a viable public health tool, or do we need an alternative? Can testing, tracing, and isolating individual cases at mass scale be a substitute tool?
This is the third lecture in a four-lecture series presented in the spring of 2020 at the University of Chicago.
Named for Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin, the Berlin Family Lectures bring leading scholars, writers, and creative artists from around the world to the University of Chicago. Each visitor offers an extended series of lectures with the aim of interacting with the university community and developing a book for publication with the University of Chicago Press. Learn more at http://berlinfamilylectures.uchicago.edu.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to humanities@uchicago.edu.
