Pandemic Perspectives: A filmmaker's journey in 10 essays, Howard Burton
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Pandemic Perspectives: A filmmaker's journey in 10 essays

Author: Howard Burton

Narrator: Howard Burton

Unabridged: 5 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Published: 04/06/2022

Genre: Health & Fitness - Diseases - Contagious

Synopsis

Directly inspired by award-winning author, physician and self-professed “biology watcher” Lewis Thomas, Howard Burton takes us on a thought-provoking tour of a wide range of social and scientific issues which he encountered through the process of making the documentary film, Pandemic Perspectives. Howard provides unique and fresh insights into a wide range of issues ranging from biology to politics to contemporary morality weaving together his interaction with a diverse array of international experts who participated in his film and his personal experiences as a physicist-turned-filmmaker.

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