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Polio: A Fearful Disease Nears Its End
By Paul Theerman, Associate Director, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health Friday, October 24, is World Polio Day. Inaugurated a decade ago, the day is promoted by the World Health...
View ArticleThe Cure for Panic: Ebola in Historical Perspective
This post is part of an exchange between “Books, Health, and History” at the New York Academy of Medicine and The Public’s Health, a blog of the Philadelphia Inquirer. By David Barnes, Associate...
View ArticleCholera Comes to New York City
By Anne Garner, Curator, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health In December, the Academy hosted the Commissioner’s Medical Grand Rounds Ebola: Past and Present panel discussion. In...
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