Word: contagions
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...discipline is used to inform ideas from another. Snow's work on administering ether as an anesthetic convinced him cholera was ingested, not inhaled. As a physician he understood how disease spread through a body. As a resident of Soho, he had the local knowledge to realize that the contagion radiated from a single source. "When you look at cholera at any one of those levels, it's hard to see how it works," says Johnson. "But here was somebody thinking at the level of microbes, the human body and the city simultaneously, and making connections between them...
...center of his tale is John Snow, the doctor who overcame the medical establishment's entrenched belief that cholera lurked in the city's "miasma," its bad air, and proved the true cause by painstakingly charting the contagion against London's water supply. The resulting map provided a founding case study for epidemiology. But as readers of previous books by Johnson might expect - among them Mind Wide Open and last year's defense of popular culture, Everything Bad Is Good For You - the author has also chosen his subject for the light it can shine into other corners...
PURE features the work of over 70 artists, including medical professionals, technologists, and musicians. The exhibit ties together four themes—medicine, art, technology, and commerce—with the contrasting ideas of purity and contagion...
...don’t think anyone can predict the outcome,” HSPH Professor of Health Policy and Management Robert J. Blendon said. Under this contingency plan, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would promote traditional approaches for contagion control such as washing your hands or covering your mouth when you sneeze. For his part, CDC quarantine chief Martin Cetron said that the results of the Harvard study could guide future methods of approaching the pandemic flu. The CDC is “trying to get a public opinion of what people would best respond...
...response to 1994’s outbreak formed the basis for UHS’s current protocol. And post-9/11 fears led administrators to refine those plans. After the 9/11 attacks, the threat of anthrax and other biological agents led administrators to consider the high risk of contagion in residential colleges. They try to preempt, rather than acting after the fact.The Hot ZoneLate in the evening of Dec. 8 of 1994, freshmen began streaming into Stillman Infirmary; thirty students would receive IV treatment on site. UHS Director David S. Rosenthal ’59, who was also director...