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Between Us and Catastrophe exhibition

‘Philadelphia Weekly’ Spotlights Institute’s Oral History Program, ‘Between Us and Catastrophe’ Exhibition
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Dennis Liotta headshot

Emory University’s Dennis Liotta to Receive 2022 SCI Perkin Medal
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Color illustration of a 19th-century cholera victim

John Snow Hunts the Blue Death

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Illustration of tapping serum from a horse in a pharmacy

Institute’s Digital Exhibition on Vaccines Gets Boost from Google Arts & Culture
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Chemistry International: Downstream
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Bacteriophages and the Fight Against Cholera in Cold War Afghanistan

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Water Pics exhibition

Science History Institute Mounts New Outdoor Exhibition
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What Causes Alzheimer’s?

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Take a Watery Journey through History and Science with Institute’s New ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Opening September 14
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Vampire preys on a sick woman

Vampire Panic

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Searching for Isabel Morgan

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Interview with Stéphane Bancel

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Cartoon of men in powdered wigs fighting

Vicious Doctors and Cruel Diseases in 18th-Century Jamaica

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Wayne Woolley’s Marvelously Equipped Mind

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Drawing of an anopheles mosquito

When Mosquitoes Cured Insanity

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Wendy Zukerman standing on stage holding microphone, wearing t-shirt that reads "science isn't here to make you feel better."

Predicting the Pandemic

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Nurse Linda Ruggiero poses for portrait wearing face mask.

COVID’s Hidden Toll on Nurses

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Genre oil painting

Quacks, Plagues, and Pandemics

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A nurse in a mask

UWISHUNU: The Top Things to Do in Philly This Week & Weekend, November 2–8
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Cows in a barn

The Washington Post: The Idea of Herd Immunity to Manage the Coronavirus Should Ring Alarm Bells
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Philadelphia Nurse Sara Cohen in her Personal Protective Equipment

Between Us and Catastrophe

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Bike delivery person in a mask

PhillyVoice: Photos of Essential Workers to Be Displayed by the Science History Institute
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A nurse in a mask

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Illustration of a young woman with skin lesions

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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Photo of Magda Marquet posing

Interview with Magda Marquet

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

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Robert Langer working on a bed at home while wearing a mask

Interview with Robert Langer

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Mark Stevenson of Thermo Fisher Scientific

Interview with Mark Stevenson

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Alnylam CEO John Maraganore

Interview with John Maraganore

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Interview with Katrine Bosley

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Hashime Murayama and the Art of Saving Lives

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William Haseltine on a stage

Interview with William Haseltine

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Susan Weiss headshot

Interview with Susan Weiss

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Photo of Susan Desmond-Hellmann at the Fortune Most Powerful Women

Interview with Sue Desmond-Hellmann

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Former Gilead CEO John C. Martin holds bottle of Truvada

Interview with John C. Martin

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child on table surrounded by a group of men and women

The Story of Serum Therapy

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Photo from 1918 showing Philadelphia streetcar with sign reading "Spit spreads death"

Spit Spreads Death

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Color anatomical drawing of a mosquito

Our Oldest, Deadliest Foe

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Woodcut of well-dressed crowd and cow strapped to table

Smallpox and the Long Road to Eradication

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Illustration of rat climbing down a ship's mooring rope with a city in the distance

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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