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Airborne Infection Control in 20-Century Peace and War

November 19, 2020 Circulating Now

By Tom Quick ~ The world can change unexpectedly in times of crisis. This story begins, like so many histories of medicine, with an illness.

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A network diagram shows connections of varying strength between words related to influenza.

Revealing Data: Close Reading and Textual Analysis as Historical Methods

November 16, 2018 Circulating Now

Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic. Examining the ways that medical

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A pie chart showing a little more than a third of deaths attributed to various respriratory diseases, with influenza at 4.7% and all other causes at 58.2%

Revealing Data: Measuring Mortality during an Epidemic

November 15, 2018 Circulating Now

Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic. Examining the ways that medical

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A word cloud that represents relative frequency of words in articles about influenza, with medical, cases, Dr, Mr, January, epidemic, number, public and symptoms included.

Revealing Data: Using Term Frequency to Chart Influenza Reporting

November 14, 2018 Circulating Now

Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic.

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Scrub Away the Thanksgiving Troublemakers

November 17, 2016 Circulating Now

In the 1950s, the CDC produced a food-handling film series demonstrating what—and what not—to do when storing and preparing food.

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Portraits of Agnew and Bliss look in on the scene of Garfield on his sickbed

“The President is Somewhat Restless…”: Languishing

September 4, 2013 Circulating Now

The infection that was ravaging through Garfield’s body was a hazard not only to himself but also to those who treated him. 

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