public health

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/2/19
  

  How the Vaping Industry Is Using a Defensive Tactic Pioneered Decades Ago by Big Tobacco

  by Sarah Milov

  Sarah Milov, author of The Cigarette: A Political History, argues "the most dangerous aspect of vaping might not be what it does to the body, but rather what it does to the body politic."

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  1-13-14
  

  How to End Lead Wars in America

  by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

  Lead poisoning must come to an end -- at least in San Francisco.

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• 11-4-13
  

  Peter C. Doherty: Pandemics Have Had "Enormous Influence" on History [INTERVIEW]

  by Robin Lindley

  The Nobel Prize-winning immunologist has just published "Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know."

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• 5-20-13
  

  The Real Problem with Putin's Russia: Vodka

  by Oliver Bullough

  Now that the bear is angry again, let's not lose sight of the fact that Russia faces an almost unprecedented public health crisis due to chronic alcoholism.

• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  3-21-13
  

  Helen Epstein: Review of Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner's "Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children"

  Helen Epstein is an independent consultant and writer specializing in public health in developing countries, and an adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.In December 1993, a slum landlord in Baltimore named Lawrence Polakoff rented an apartment to a twenty-one-year-old single mother and her three-year-old son, Max.1 A few days after they moved in, Max’s mother was invited to participate in a research study comparing how well different home renovation methods protected children from lead poisoning, which is still a major problem endangering the health of millions of American children, many of them poor.

• SOURCE: NYT
  1-28-13
  

  Amy L. Fairchild, David Merritt Johns, and Kavita Sivaramakrishnan: A Brief History of Panic

  Amy L. Fairchild is a professor and the author, most recently, of “Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America.” David Merritt Johns is a journalist and doctoral student. Kavita Sivaramakrishnan is an assistant professor and author of “Old Potions, New Bottles: Recasting Indigenous Medicine in Colonial Punjab.” All are with the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.In September of 1873, United States Senator J.R. West of Louisiana received a telegram from his home state whose terse lines spoke of abject desperation:The people are panic-stricken. All that could have left. The poor are nearly all on our hands; no money in the city treasury. All pecuniary aid will be thankfully received. Fever increasing.(Signed) Samuel Levy, Mayor...