medical history

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• SOURCE: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
  10/18/2020
  

  Last Week Tonight: The World Health Organization

  The weekly comedy-investigative program includes an assessment of the World Health Organization's past work eradicating disease in the developing world and the Trump administration's attacks on the WHO (includes some vulgar language and jokes).

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/15/2020
  

  Medieval Europeans Didn’t Understand how the Plague Spread. Their Response Wasn’t so Different from Ours Now

  "As we spoke with historians and searched for the plague’s lasting marks, what stood out most were the similarities, 672 years apart."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/14/2020
  

  How Do Pandemics End? History Suggests Diseases Fade but are Never Truly Gone

  by Nükhet Varlik

  "Whether bacterial, viral or parasitic, virtually every disease pathogen that has affected people over the last several thousand years is still with us, because it is nearly impossible to fully eradicate them."

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• 10/4/2020
  

  "Follow the Science," but Explain and Apologize

  by Susan M. Reverby

  Governments need to establish trust so that their public health announcements are credible and persuasive, but have undermined that trust by conducting ethically questionable studies. A model of apology is part of the solution. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/8/2020
  

  Race, Medicine, and the Origins of American Psychiatry (Review)

  by Natalie Shibley

  Wendy Gonaver's book traces the relationiship between slavery and modern psychiatric medicine. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  8/10/2020
  

  5 Hard-Earned Lessons from Past Pandemics

  Do any of the survival strategies developed by past societies seem familiar? 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  8/4/2020
  

  Psychiatry and Homosexuality Draft Exemptions During the Vietnam War

  by Natalie Shibley

  Although many gay rights organizations argued that the exclusion of homosexuals from the armed forces was unconstitutional and discriminatory, several of the same groups also offered advice to gay men who wanted to be disqualified from military service.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/25/2020
  

  Ancient Teeth Show History of Epidemics is Much Older than we Thought

  Scientists and archaeologists now believe that the plague bacteria, which caused the medieval Black Death, infected humans roughly 5,000 years ago in the Stone Age.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/23/2020
  

  Good News: The Economy Usually Recovers Quickly Once Pandemics End

  by Laird M. Easton

  Since the Black Death of the mid-14th century, no major pandemic appears to have had a long-lasting, negative economic impact, at least in Europe and North America.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  7/21/2020
  

  The Children’s Nutrition and Dental Clinics of Mobile: Public Health, Volunteerism, and the Color Line during the Great Depression

  by Daryn Glassbrook

  The Depression did not create a hunger and malnutrition crisis in the United States. It brought to the fore deep-seated structural weaknesses in our economic, political, and health systems that enabled this crisis to boil over.

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• SOURCE: Telegraph
  7/23/2020
  

  Wearing A Face Mask Is Not New - But The Backlash Against Them Is, Say Historians

  "The striking thing about 1941 is that there was no debate or controversy between the scientists and the government, there was just rapid agreement that this made sense and it wasn't costly," said Dr Jesse Olszynko-Gryn.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/20/2020
  

  Sexism Pushed Rosalind Franklin Toward The Scientific Sidelines During Her Short Life, But Her Work Still Shines On Her 100th Birthday

  by Richard Gunderman

  Rosalind Franklin overcame skepticism and discouragement from family and peers to make vital contributions to understanding molecular structures (including for DNA) in her short life. 

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now!
  7/16/2020
  

  ‘The Pandemic Could Get Much Worse’: Public Health Historian On Whether Another Lockdown Is The Only Way To Avoid Catastrophe

  Public health historian John Barry is the author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.”

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/10/2020
  

  Facing America's History of Racism Requires Facing the Origins of 'Race' as a Concept

  by Andrew Curran

  Many of the most rearguard and unscientific European notions regarding race have remained deeply embedded in the American psyche.

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• SOURCE: PBS
  6/22/2020
  

  Past Pandemics have Reshaped Society. Will Coronavirus do the Same?

  Jeffrey Brown speaks to two historians, Frank Snowden of Yale University and Nancy Bristow of the University of Puget Sound, about how previous pandemics have shaped societies.

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• SOURCE: WLTX (SC)
  6/15/2020
  

  University of South Carolina Considers Removing J. Marion Sims' Name from Women’s Residence Hall

  Sims is known to have performed hundreds of medical experimentations on enslaved women.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/10/2020
  

  How Data Became One of the Most Powerful Tools to Fight an Epidemic

  As public-health experts have known since the 19th century, information can be the best medicine. What new data streams could help quell future outbreaks?

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• SOURCE: Psychiatry Advisor
  5/29/2020
  

  Confronting the History of a Southern Asylum: An Interview With Mab Segrest

  Dr. Segrest's new book uncovers the harrowing story of the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  5/31/2020
  

  Pandemic Historian: Don't Rush Reopening. In 1918, Some States Ran Straight Into More Death.

  by Dr. Howard Markel

  Over a decade ago, I looked at state lockdown measures during the 1918 influenza pandemic. My takeaway: Longer is better than shorter.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  5/29/2020
  

  Historian on White House Response to COVID: "Clearly, They Have Not Told the Truth"

  Historian John Barry, who studied the influenza outbreak of 1918, evaluates the current administration's handling of COVID-19.