Tag: social medicine
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The missing chapter in our curriculum
Alexandra Adams Hershey, Pennsylvania A maternity nurse examines a pregnant patient at a rural community health center in northern Uganda. Photo by Alexandra Adams. The rural village of Paimol in northern Uganda, located four hours away from the nearest hospital. Photo by Alexandra Adams. A fourteen-year-old girl, large with child, presented to her community health…
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Plague Sydney 1900
Barry R. CatchloveSydney Introduction Bubonic plague has been the most feared disease throughout history. Most people are aware of its ravages but see it as a pestilence of the middle ages. Few are aware that it remains a disease of the twenty-first century, is endemic in many parts of the developed and underdeveloped world, and…