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During a Harvard-sponsored forum at First Parish in Cambridge, Professor Evelynn Hammonds (left) drew attention to the fact that epidemics “pull the covers off” the ways that the poor, vulnerable, and sick are perceived. Sharing her concerns was Professor Paul Farmer: “If we had the staff, stuff, space, and systems, we could get people earlier into a place where they could get supportive care.” To date, most Americans stricken with Ebola have survived because they were “scooped out” of miserable conditions, he noted.

‘Epidemics are optional’

More medical care could greatly reduce Ebola fatalities, Farmer says

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DateDecember 10, 2014March 6, 2019

Surgeon and anatomist Robert M. Green (photo 1) lectures at Harvard Medical School in 1941, standing in front of a large-scale wood pulp model of the skull made in the 1890s. Illustrations (photo 2) from Juan Valverde de Amusco’s “Anatomia del corpo humano” (1560). A 1610 engraving of the anatomical theater of Leiden University (photo 3).

Body exhibit

Exhibit shows how a standard medical procedure evolved across centuries

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DateApril 24, 2014

How doctors think, past and present

David Jones’ work bridges history, medicine at Harvard

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DateSeptember 1, 2011June 18, 2019