medical history

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/25/2020
  

  This Is Just the Beginning

  by Yascha Mounk

  If we commit to strict social distancing now, we can radically curtail the number of new cases and buy time—time to put in place the measures we need to contain the pandemic in a less economically destructive way.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  3/22/2020
  

  Progress is Why Viruses Aren't Named After Locations Anymore

  While the White House has stood by President Donald Trump's frequent use of the phrase "Chinese virus" in reference to COVID-19 experts say the argument just doesn't hold up.

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• SOURCE: Michigan Radio
  3/23/2020
  

  What Does “Flatten the Curve” Mean? We Asked the UM Medical Historian who Helped Coin the Term

  Markel and his cohorts designed a study of the 1918-19 flu pandemic to compare cities that did flatten the curve--with those that didn't.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/17/20
  

  Eugenics is trending. That’s a problem.

  by Caitlin Fendley

  Any effort to slow population growth must center on reproductive justice.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  2/6/20
  

  Carrying Community: The Black Midwife’s Bag in the American South

  by Cara Delay

  The policing of midwives’ bags and what was in them was central to the mission that would ultimately destroy black women’s traditional health networks. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/3/20
  

  Quarantines have tried to keep out disease for thousands of years

  by Leslie S. Leighton

  The recent global spread of a deadly coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China, has led world leaders to invoke an ancient tradition to control the spread of illness: quarantine.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  12/31/19
  

  Making Room for Miscarriage

  by Lara Freidenfelds

  In my new book The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America, I set out to write the history of our modern culture of childbearing in the US, and how it has produced our expectation of perfect pregnancies.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  9/11/19
  

  Uncovering the History of Child Psychiatry: A Conversation with Deborah Blythe Doroshow

  by Kylie Smith

  Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America’s Troubled Children explores the development of Residential Treatment Centers (RTCs) for “emotionally disturbed” children. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/5/19
  

  Not having kids is nothing new. What centuries of history tell us about childlessness today.

  by Rachel Chrastil

  The long history of childlessness can help us to debunk myths, tell our stories and expand the range of our possibilities. 

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• SOURCE: CBC News
  8/24/19
  

  How do you measure a woman's pain? Historian Whitney Wood aims to find out

  Medical historian Whitney Wood is the new Canada Research Chair at Nanaimo's Vancouver Island University.

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• 7/21/19
  

  The Beginning of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic – and One Doctor's Search for a Cure

  by Seema Yasmin

  It was unparalleled, this confluence of public health, politics, clinical medicine, and public anxiety. The unknown disease was spreading faster than imagined. Humanity had never seen anything like it. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/9/19
  

  The key to lowering America’s high rates of maternal mortality

  by Melissa Reynolds

  Health-care providers have forgotten the central lesson of two millennia of gynecology.

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• 3/31/19
  

  Elizabeth Blackwell, MD., Hero, Humanitarian, and Teacher

  by Charles F. Howlett

  She used her skills as a teacher to become not only the first American female physician but also its first female professor of medicine.

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• SOURCE: OZY
  2/26/19
  

  The Trailblazing Black Female Doctor That American History Forgot

  Rebecca Crumpler wrote one of the first American medical guides to offer advice for women and children.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/7/19
  

  Why it’s shocking to look back at med school yearbooks from decades ago

  by Elizabeth Evans

  They offer jaw-dropping examples of the sexism and racism that shaped professional cultures.

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• SOURCE: History Channel
  2/1/19
  

  In the early 1700s, Onesimus shared a revolutionary way to prevent smallpox.

  In the early 1700s, Onesimus shared a revolutionary way to prevent smallpox.

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• 1/29/19
  

  Were These Enslaved Women Grand Medical Experiments or Guinea Pigs?

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Behind the Sheet is a great success on a number of levels, not just medical, and a four star historical hit.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/27/19
  

  Quest to Solve Assassination Mystery Revives an AIDS Conspiracy Theory

  “We were at war,” said the former militia member, Alexander Jones. “Black people in South Africa were the enemy.”