Article from Scientific American: "We Need Social Science, Not Just Medical Science, to Beat the Pandemic" Apr 2, 2021 10:30 am by TimFeatured Publications Images In this article, Nicolas Dirks argues that we need tools from both medical and social science to get control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Human behavior and issues of social inequity have been prominent features in the successes and failures of confronting this crisis in global health.