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Health Checks on History

Ming Yang, Caroline Rance

History’s outbreaks, policies and turning points in public health - and the lessons they keep teaching us.

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  • Ming Yang

    I’m an editor at Nature Medicine, working in epidemiology, public and global health. I write here to explore how history shapes the way we think about health today. Views are my own.

  • Caroline Rance

    Historian, speaker and writer about the history of medicine - especially quacks and patent remedies. Also co-host of the literature podcast She Wrote Too.

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