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1976 was a busy year in Philadelphia. They were holding the Bicentennial celebration, commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. As part of the year-long festivities, the city had become a hub for
200 years ago this week, John Snow was born. Here at Public Health Perspectives, we’re pretty big fans of his. Stephen Johnson, who wrote a book about Snow’s 1854 cholera investigation called The Ghost Map,
There have been many breakthroughs made off the blood and sweat of Epidemiologists. They have been at the forefront of eradicating polio, smallpox, reducing deaths from cholera and even detecting thalidomide as a teratogen. But
In hindsight, shoving my hand into a narrow drinking glass wasn’t such a good idea. I learned this the hard way a few years ago while vigorously scrubbing the inside of a glass with a
I dropped something on the floor at the hospital. My parents were visiting me and my one-day-old son, and I dropped something behind the bassinet, something disposable. A diaper, perhaps. My dad, who had spent