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Data Science in Politics of Yellow Fever: Discovering the Cause of Yellow Fever

June 7, 2019 Circulating Now

By Tannaz Motevalli, Sarah Eilers, Laura Hartman, and Erika Mills In the previous blog post “Data Science in Politics of Yellow Fever: Medical Research Before

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Data Science in Politics of Yellow Fever: Medical Research before “Data”

June 5, 2019 Circulating Now

When data is processed and analyzed it becomes actionable information.

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Trapping Mosquitoes at Home

May 9, 2019 Circulating Now

Mosquito control education materials from the early 20th century—from changing the landscape to chemical insecticides.

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“Fit to Fight”: Home front Army doctors and VD during WW I

October 18, 2018 Circulating Now

By Susan L. Speaker ~ After the United States entered the World War in April 1917, Dr. Wilbur Sawyer, a 37-year-old public health administrator with

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Medical Identity and Ethnicity in 19th-Century New Orleans

August 25, 2015 Circulating Now

Dr. Amy Wiese Forbes spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Medical Identity and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans.” Dr. Forbes is Associate

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Dr. Samuel Mudd, Prisoner and Physician

April 14, 2014 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Robert Summers who has been researching, writing, and lecturing on his ancestor Dr. Samuel A. Mudd’s role in the Lincoln

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Celebrating Walter Reed

September 13, 2013 circulating now

By Laura McNulty and Ginny A. Roth Today would have been Major Walter Reed’s 162nd birthday.  Reed, shown in this picture with his daughter Emilie

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