Anna commented on the post, Week 5: Public Health: Scientific Complexity, on...
The onset of epidemics in the course of time has served as a wake up call to the government, general public, and professional groups. As time went on, theories changed. While some were wrong, each...
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We are in a “Red Queen” race against the continuously evolving microorganisms. As long as we continue developing new antibiotics to fight disease, we will always be in battle. We are rather fortunate...
View ArticleAnna commented on the post, Week 6- Tuberculosis and the Public Health...
We are in a “Red Queen” race against the continuously evolving microorganisms. As long as we continue developing new antibiotics to fight disease, we will always be in battle. We are rather fortunate...
View ArticleAnna commented on the post, Week 9- The Fight Against Pellagra, on the site...
According to “A Study of the Relation of Diet to Pellagra Incidence in Seven Textile Mill Communities of South Carolina in 1916,” nurses and attendants who ate fresh animal foods , “fresh meats, eggs,...
View ArticleAnna commented on the post, Week 10: Disease, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and...
Since the introduction of racial ideology, race has been wrongfully considered to be a natural phenomenon that can predict a person’s morality and behavior. Europeans have, therefore, used race to...
View ArticleAnna commented on the post, Tuskegee Syphilis Study, on the site Honors...
In class, we discussed how outrageous the Tuskegee study was. We also questioned whether Tuskegee’s study was just an incident of the time. Mizanur points out that such unethical studies have been the...
View ArticleAnna commented on the post, Week 13: The Epidemiological Transition and...
The question of why Americans still smoke even though smoking has been shown to have very serious health risks is very interesting. If we look back to the time of Bernays, we can understand how human...
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