John Snow

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/21/2023
  

  Want to Understand the Internet? Consider the "Great Stink" of 1858 London

  Bad information online is a concern. But the history of public health shows that understanding how it spreads and circulates is critical to fighting it. 

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• SOURCE: The Lancet
  2/19/2022
  

  The Lancet: John Snow Myth Hides Public Health's Roots in Slavery and Empire

  Historian Jim Downs's "Maladies of Empire" is cited as a source showing that the profession of public health grew out of the concerns of slavery, war and imperialism.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  4/14/2020
  

  How the ‘Father of Epidemiology’ Made the Connection Between Disease and Geography

  by Deirdre Mask

  “The poor were dying in disproportionate numbers not because they suffered from moral failings,” Steven Johnson writes. “They were dying because they were being poisoned.”