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Joseph Goldberger’s Filth Parties

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children learning geography in a classroom from 1921.

Science and Disability: Part 2

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Interview with Magda Marquet

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A Silent, Savage Menace: Reassessing "Panic in the Streets"

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Interview with Robert Langer

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Interview with Mark Stevenson

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Hashime Murayama and the Art of Saving Lives

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Interview with Susan Weiss

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Interview with John C. Martin

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The Story of Serum Therapy

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Spit Spreads Death

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Our Oldest, Deadliest Foe

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Smallpox and the Long Road to Eradication

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San Francisco’s Plague Years

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Polio vaccine dropped on to sugar lump for child patient.

Book Club: The Story of the Polio Vaccine

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Vaccinating for polio in South Sudan, 2014.

Political Ills

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