How to face our viral and collective fear of epidemics?

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In Los Angeles, the Americans are stocking up on water, food and toilet paper in anticipation of a coronavirus epidemic in the country, on February 29, 2020. Mark RALSTON / AFP

By: Caroline Lachowsky

How to face fear, our viral and collective fears? Faced with these invisible enemies that are viruses, is fear a good or a bad adviser?

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To confront this pandemic of coronavirus which sends us back not only to the terrible epidemics of the past, of sinister memory, but also to other more recent ones like Ebola which continues to rage at low noise in Central Africa?

How can all of our history, past and present experiences help us through these trials?

Is fear contagious? Crossed views of historians, philosophers, anthropologists and epidemiologists on our viral and collective fears of epidemics ... How to deal with it?

With Anne-Marie Moulin, doctor and philosopher, emeritus research director at CNRS to talk about collective fears in the face of epidemics and Frédéric Keck research director at CNRS and director of the Social Anthropology Laboratory.

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