The Dancing Plague

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
John Waller describes a bizarre dancing epidemic that struck Europe in the 1500s. In The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness, he looks into the strange capabilities of the human mind and examines on our susceptibility to mass hysteria.

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