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America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System Origins

WebA familiar scene plays out again and again in American public life in the 21st century. In the wake of a mass shooting such as the one in Parkland, FL, commentators, pundits, and …

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Mental Health and American Society Origins

WebRecent mass shootings have turned American attention to the nation’s mental health system, its perceived failings, and it's potential to stem the tide of mass violence. …

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Evolution of the Treatment of Mental Illness Origins

WebThis lesson plan deals with the evolution of the treatment of mental illness and psychological disorders. The Origins article that I chose to use was an article the discussed the mental …

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What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care

WebWhat HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care. Comparing COVID-19 to HIV is, in many ways, like comparing apples to oranges: HIV is transmitted primarily through …

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Cholera and the Roots of Public Health Origins

WebCholera and the Roots of Public Health. By. Jim Harris. The onset of COVID-19 has been shocking—in terms of global spread and relatively high lethality—but it is hardly the first …

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Toxic Treatment: Fluoride's Transformation from Industrial …

WebIt was therefore Mellon’s PHS that ordered Dean to study fluoride in the first place. Fluoride’s transmogrification from toxic waste to public health miracle, skeptics argued, …

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Should Age Matter

WebThis article will return to the middle of the twentieth century to explore how 65 became a federal marker of old age and why health insurance came to be seen, in the years …

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Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again Origins

WebInfluenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again. By. Anne Sealey. In 2005, Dr. Terrence Tumpey, a Center for Disease Control Microbiologist, examines recreated 1918 …

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Early American Contagions Origins

WebEpidemics figure prominently in what we call “Early” American history—a past often animated by the meeting between Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans in the …

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Africa's Medical History Revealed Origins

WebIn her book, Health, Healing and Illness in African History, Rebekah Lee explores the rich medical history of Africa stretching from the precolonial and colonial periods to the …

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People Were Skeptical about Veterans’ Hospitals, Too: The

WebNational Convention in August 2013. “No one is taking away your benefits. Your veterans’ healthcare is safe.” A few months before his signature Affordable Care …

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Black Women, Medical Racism, and COVID-19 Origins

WebSandra Lindsay, a Black, Jamaican intensive care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York became the first person in New York City, and in most news reports, …

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Pandemic Redux: Revisiting Cincinnati’s 1849 Cholera in the

WebIn 1849, Cincinnati failed to deliver basic public health services taken for granted today. An article in the June 1, 1819 Inquisitor and Cincinnati Advertiser decried …

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The Blame Game: The USSR’s Response to HIV/AIDS Origins

WebIn 2016, the USA reported 1.1 million cases and post-Soviet Russia, with half the population, had 1.5 million cases. The 1990 report was shaped by the same erroneous assumptions …

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Pandemics: Today and Yesterday Origins

WebThese microbes have assumed many forms, from plague, influenza, and HIV to cholera, smallpox, polio, and measles. And now coronavirus. COVID-19 has—as ofJune 2, 2020, …

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The 1918 Flu Pandemic Origins

WebNovember 1918 was the deadliest month of the greatest pandemic in recorded history: the “Spanish Flu.” Recent estimates suggest that this flu claimed as many as 50 million lives …

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“Hands off My Medicare”: The Deadly Legacy of Social Insurance

WebHouse and Senate Democrats hammering out the health care bills this week share the conviction that only those who pay into the insurance system are deserving of its …

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Corona in Context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic (2003)

WebA microscopic image of SARS-CoV. It is also the second to cause a global pandemic in the 21st century. In 2003, a global pandemic of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, …

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