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Why Are You Not Dead Yet?

Life expectancy doubled in the past 150 years. Here’s why.

by Laura Helmuth via Slate on September 5, 2017

Thank the Erie Canal for Spreading People, Ideas and Germs Across America

For the waterway's 200th anniversary, learn about its creation and impact.

by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on July 3, 2017

A Century of Highway Zombies

Since the 1920s, “highway hypnosis” has lulled drivers to disaster.

by Carmine Grimaldi via The Atlantic on July 29, 2016

Public Health and the Dead at Johnstown

How do we humanely bury the dead after a disaster?

by Vicki Daniel via Nursing Clio on December 2, 2015

Epidemic Proportions

How Americans have understood epidemics, from the Columbian Exchange to COVID-19.

Reconstruction of Mt. Malady hospital at Henricus Historical Park, Virginia.

Health Care in the New World

Reporter Catherine Moore visits the first hospital in the New World and finds out why the “public plan” in the Virginia colony may have had its drawbacks.

via BackStory on October 1, 2009

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