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I'm primarily interested in the history of disease as it has been
understood in the 19th and 20th century, both from a popular and a public health
perspective. My original interest in the history of disease came because I worked
as a public health microbiologist and as a clinical microbiologist. And so my interest
as an historian has been on the development of understanding of disease, its social meaning,
its epidemiologic meaning, the way individuals and societies, particularly American society,
has responded to the threat of disease, and to the changing perspective on how one controls
disease.
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