Tag: David Jones

  • Nation & World

    The main public health tool during 1918 pandemic? Social distancing

    The Gazette looks at the history of social distancing, which, along with masks and vaccines, is still an effective strategy to stem the spread of COVID-19.

    7 minutes
    Photo illustration with historic images.
  • Nation & World

    ‘Epidemics are optional’

    Expanded medical care could greatly reduce Ebola fatalities, says Paul Farmer of Partners In Health.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Body exhibit

    A new exhibit, “Body of Knowledge,” offers a five-century foray through the culture and history of anatomy and dissection, from the days of autopsies in private homes to the present debate over using digital ways to study the body without saws and knives. The exhibit will offer a special viewing May 3, 11 a.m. to…

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    How doctors think, past and present

    Physician and historian David Jones works to bridge the gap between medical science and the social forces that shape it, as Harvard’s first A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine.

    5 minutes