---
title: 'Episode 31: Alyse Gray Returns! - Compendium Pandemica: A Guide to Horrible Infectious Diseases'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/episode-31-alyse-gray-returns-compendium-pandemica-a-guide-to-horrible-infectious-diseases'
show: 'People of Pathology Podcast'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/people-of-pathology-podcast'
published: '2020-10-19'
audio: 'https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/axhpbd/Compendium_Pandemica_-_10_18_20_1024_AMaa6nt.mp3'
---

# Episode 31: Alyse Gray Returns! - Compendium Pandemica: A Guide to Horrible Infectious Diseases

My guest today is Pathologists Assistant Alyse Gray. Alyse is the author of Compendium Pandemica: A Guide to Horrible Infectious Diseases.What we discuss with Alyse Gray:The status of Death, It's a Living, her book in progressWhy humor can be useful ...

## Summary

My guest today is Pathologists Assistant Alyse Gray. Alyse is the author of Compendium Pandemica: A Guide to Horrible Infectious Diseases.

What we discuss with Alyse Gray:

- The status of Death, It's a Living, her book in progress

- Why humor can be useful in education

- How studying the histories of diseases can inform our current state of the world

- How Syphilus was named from a poem, and the Tuskegee Study

- Vaccines and how they have improved our way of living

- The Horrible Infectious Diseases Survival Guide

Links for this episode:

- Order Compendium Pandemica [here](https://www.amazon.com/Compendium-Pandemica-Horrible-Infectious-Diseases/dp/0578714272/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=3QTO73KK3QY28&dchild=1&keywords=compendium+pandemica+a+guide+to+horrible+infectious+diseases&qid=1603053248&sprefix=compendium+pand%2Caps%2C347&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzMVRUVEwxTFhYRkpWJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMzQ5MzMxMzhaMk1YTUg4SjJGNCZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwNjQ4Mjc4M1RYUjYxQjI2Q0gzQyZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=)

- Alyse Gray:

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/PA_with_a_pen)

[Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/autopsy.pathology/)

[Website ](https://www.writerwithascalpel.com)

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