Special Episode: On the Origin of Epidemiology
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The Dehumanization of the Civil War
Sik from freedom is a new book about the history of medical exploitation. In one instance, smallpox was used to inoculate slaves during the Civil War. O'Neill: Most people don't know that over 60 thousand formerly enslaved people died of smallpox at the moment of emancipation. The notion of serta, of medical ethics, is not really a thing until the mid-twentieth century.
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