medical history

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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.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/2020
  

  This Montana Farm Boy Became a Scientific Legend, Developing Vaccines to Protect Kids Worldwide

  Maurice Hilleman helped develop vaccines that have saved millions of children from death from contagious disease.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/26/2020
  

  America’s Response to Coronavirus Pandemic is ‘Incomprehensibly Incoherent,’ Says Historian Who Studied the 1918 Flu

  According to historian John M. Barry, Americans have not learned their lesson since 1918.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/24/2020
  

  Reopening too Soon: Lessons from the Deadly Second Wave of the 1918 Flu Pandemic

  J. Alexander Navarro of the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine has compiled archival records of the 1918 Influenza pandemic in 43 U.S. cities. The findings suggest staying closed helps prevent a deadly second wave of infections.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/19/2020
  

  The Potential Risk of Chasing a COVID-19 Vaccine

  by Heidi Morefield

  Vaccine development is important to fighting viruses, but can’t come at the expense of other means of prevention.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/18/2020
  

  Most Medical Professionals Aren’t Racist — But Our Medical System Is

  by Ella St. George Carey

  The medical profession perpetuates racial inequality in health outcomes in large part because medical training still treats white and nonwhite bodies as fundamentally different.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  5/18/2020
  

  Pandemic Narratives and the Historian

  A group of historians including Alison Bashford, Simuka Chigudu, Deborah Coen, Richard Keller, Julie Livingston, Nayan Shah and Paul Weindling discuss the helpful and harmful ways historians have examined the COVID-19 crisis. 

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now!
  5/18/2020
  

  How Will COVID-19 Change the World? Historian Frank Snowden on Epidemics From the Black Death to Now

  Professor Frank Snowden, who has been quarantined in Rome since the Coronavirus outbreak (and is himself recovering from the illness) discusses his research on the history of pandemics.

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• SOURCE: ABC Radio National
  5/17/2020
  

  How Epidemics And Pandemics Have Changed History

  This podcast features historians Jo Hays, Frank Snowden, and Elizabeth Fenn in a discussion of the role of infectious disease in history.

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• SOURCE: National Museum of Natural History
  5/12/2020
  

  Pandemic Past, Pandemic Present with Medical Historian Mark Honigsbaum

  In this Zoom webinar, Honigsbaum discusses the influenza pandemics of the last century and their connections to COVID-19.

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• SOURCE: University of Rochester
  5/13/2020
  

  Theodore Brown receives Lifetime Achievement Award from American Association for the History of Medicine

  Brown's history of the World Health Organization stresses that international politics have left the agency without the power it needs to battle a pandemic like Covid-19. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  5/13/2020
  

  Smallpox Inoculations in 1770s Were Risky, But Helped George Washington Win the War

  Historian Elizabeth Fenn notes that Washington recognized the need to negate a British advantage: endemic smallpox in Britain made his enemy less susceptible to the disease rampant in the colonies. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/7/2020
  

  Pandemics of the Past

  by Jon Meacham

  "It’s too early to know where our own battle against Covid-19 will lead us — the fight is far from over — but the nonfiction literature of plague reveals that pandemics, while ending individual human lives, can mark the beginnings of new ways of being and of thinking," writes historian Jon Meacham.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  5/11/2020
  

  COVID-19 May Permanently Shutter Museum Devoted to Vaccination Pioneer

  In an ironic twist, Edward Jenner’s historic house is struggling to outlast the financial toll of being closed.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/10/2020
  

  How Pandemics End

  An infectious outbreak can conclude in more ways than one, historians say. But for whom does it end, and who gets to decide?