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What Was Healthcare Like in the 1800s

WEBElaine G. Breslaw is a visiting scholar at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and author of "Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America."

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A History of the Fight for Universal Healthcare and the Cry of

WEBBarack Obama signs the Affordable Care Act. Another presidential election season is underway and our two major parties are about to reprise their familiar roles with respect …

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The First Smallpox Vaccinator in the 1780s Got

WEBJesty believed replacing smallpox matter with cowpox was the safer approach. One spring day in 1774, Jesty set out with his wife, Mary, and their two toddlers, to a neighboring …

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Medical: Remembering the Man Who Always Lost to Perry Mason …

WEBHealth professionals, however, are notoriously lax in bringing up the subject of cigarettes: Only half of smokers have ever been told to quit by their physicians. Over the years, …

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Black Health Care, Black Art: A Texas Perspective

WEBThe origins of UTMB in Galveston offer a lesser-explored place to investigate early Black health care. When the medical school opened, Black patients were treated in a separate …

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Kara Rogers: Beyond Darwin Eugenics, Social Darwinism, and the

WEB[Kara Rogers is Britannica’s life sciences editor. She holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology from the University of Arizona, where her research focused on understanding …

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Harriet Washington: Defends her book on medical apartheid after

WEBIn 15 chapters and 501 well-annotated pages, my book “Medical Apartheid” offers a careful, nuanced discussion of trends, cases, problems, ethics and persistent patterns in the …

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What Abraham Lincoln Got Right About Addiction

WEBAcknowledging the public health crisis of alcoholismand the lives and families liquor had ruined, Lincoln extoled the Washingtonian understanding that such an affliction was a …

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Yes, Native Americans Were the Victims of Genocide

WEBAt first denied by the Indian Health Service, two years later, a study by the U.S. General Accounting Office found that 4 of the 12 Indian Health Service regions sterilized 3,406 …

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The History of DDT Shows Government Agencies Have …

WEBElena Conis is a writer and historian of medicine, public health, and the environment.She teaches at the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Media Studies Program, …

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What the Women of Today Can Learn from the Women of the 1860s

WEBHere, perhaps, is the reminder that the women of today can take from the women of the 1860s. Women have more collective power than they realize and can do a better job of …

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A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American …

WEBThe fight against involuntary sterilization was one of many intertwined injustices rooted in a much longer history of U.S. colonialism. And that history continues to …

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Whatever happened to “quickening”

WEBThe term quickening comes from the root word quick, an archaic synonym for “living.” (Think “the quick and the dead.”) The concept goes back at least to Aristotle, who believed that …

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The First Woman President of the United States – Mrs. Edith …

WEBThe other question constantly asked in the play is about the President’s health. As long as he appears to be doing better, everybody goes along with his reclusive life. Mrs. Wilson, …

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Consequences of the Truman Doctrine History News Network

WEBThe major ideological shift represented by the Truman Doctrine and the aid to Greece and Turkey its its simultaneous rejection of the long-standing injunction to “steer clear of …

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The Troubled Genius of Robert Lowell History News Network

WEBby Robin Lindley. Robin Lindley is a Seattle-based writer and attorney. He is features editor for the History News Network (hnn.us), and his work also has appeared in Writer’s …

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What Does the President Actually Do

WEBA good example of this dynamic at work was the 2010 health care reform bill -- President Obama had pledged to pass comprehensive health care reform, but it was his …

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The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics

WEBThey also arranged for Nazi scientific exhibits, such as an August 1934 display at the L.A. County Museum, for the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association.

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The Real Reason LBJ Didn’t Run for Re-Election in 1968

WEBThe author of this corrective piece researched his heavily documented Johnson effort—resulting in the Kansas Press Book The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson …

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1956: A Year that Changed America History News Network

WEB1956: A Year that Changed America. Simon Hall is Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds. His latest book is 1956: The World in Revolt (New York, Pegasus …

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Why family size fell dramatically in 19th-century US, Europe

WEBThe second explanation is that people consciously try to limit having children, which was revolutionary in the 19th century." According to most census estimates, an American …

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Deborah Blum: How the Government Poisoned People During …

WEBThe Volstead Act, spelling out the rules for enforcement, passed shortly later, and Prohibition itself went into effect on Jan. 1, 1920. But people continued to drink—and in …

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