The History of 19th-Century Quarantine Politics: A Conversation with David S. Barnes
Peoples & Things
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The Importance of Public Health Knowledge Before Bacteria
I try to avoid dropping the e-bomb on my students epistemology, because it's just the theory of no topical term that makes people's brains freeze when they hear it. But how, what counts as true in different circumstances and different historical eras is absolutely fascinating and incredibly important. And medicine and public health before bacteriology before advanced biomedical technology was rich, complicated, empirical results oriented and effective. If you judge effectiveness by the standards of the time. Yeah.
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