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History in a Crisis - Lessons for Covid-19

The history of epidemics offers considerable advice, but only if people know the history and respond with wisdom.

by David S. Jones via The New England Journal Of Medicine on March 12, 2020

Nurse administering electroshock therapy to a patient.

The Troubled History of Psychiatry

Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself. What, exactly, constitutes a mental disorder?

by Jerome Groopman via The New Yorker on May 20, 2019

Quacks, Alternative Medicine, and the U.S. Army in the First World War

During WWI, the Surgeon General received numerous pitches for miraculous cures for sick and wounded American soldiers.

by Evan P. Sullivan via Nursing Clio on January 31, 2019

A White man injecting a shot into an African American man.

The Lasting Fallout of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

A recent paper provides evidence that the Tuskegee Syphilis Study reduced the life expectancy of African-American men.

by Nashwa Khan via JSTOR Daily on June 20, 2016

Image of one of the victims of the Tuskegee experiment.

AP Exposes the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The 50th Anniversary

Read the original article that unearthed the Tuskegee experiment.

by Jean Heller via AP News on July 25, 1972

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