About the flu. It seemed like something that came around every year and people would get sick and then better again. Within a few years ago, i a ima reporter for the New York Times and i read an article about a miraculous discovery there was a guy at Walter Reed Medical Center and he was reporting in a technical journal of Science Magazine that he somehow managed to there were fragments of the virus that killed him and when i interviewed this man about his work he told me about the pandemic of 1918 and i was stunned. I had never heard of anything like this. It was the worst Infectious Disease epidemic in history. It affected us on many people te that have Something Like that came by today, it would kill more people than the top ten killers got together, 1. 5 million, something of that mortality rate. Had i just found out by looking at the papers for the centers for Disease Control that 99 of the people that i did the epidemic were under age 65, so it was an astonishing devastating epid
C. Mcadoo morning of there i am joanne myers is like to thank you all for beginning your morning with us. We are delighted to welcome dr. Ali khan and sesnon will tv to this program. Dr. Khan will be discussing his look the next pandemic. The former director of the office of Public Health and response at the centers for Disease Control prevention dr. Khan has been on the frontlines in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. Hes not the first to have done so. Throughout history humans have been fighting diseases waging wars against rampant violent contagion. In fact theres never been a time when humans were not a good by microbes. During his time as a selfdescribed disease detective our speakers had his own brushes with viruses Infectious Diseases and s contagion. For example in 1995 he worked among red cross workers in zaire during the first of ebolala cris but after 9 11 he was called to washington to prevent the spread event that anthrax in the Senate Office building in 2
The United States Public Health service as it exists today is a product of experience extending over a period of nearly 150 years. It was originally created as a Marine Hospital service for the purpose of providing medical care to american seamen. It was established by an act of congress signed by the second president of the United States, john adams, on july 16, 1798. This service was originally supported by a tax on american merchant seamen. This was later abolished. It was collected by the collector of the customs of the treasury department. And the Marine Hospital service came under the jurisdiction of that department where it remains today. The first Marine Hospital located at norfolk, virginia. The second was built in boston, massachusetts. Some of the medical personnel were used by the union and the confederacy for the care of the sick and wounded of the military forces. It frequently happened the medical officers of the early Marine Hospital were the first position to diagnose
Calling out people . Like me . So i think this is a good thing for us to talk about. This is a history methods course. This is about how you become a historian and what you do for a living. You may remember the first week of class we talked about the reaction you sometimes make it from family members when they hear they when they hear you are a history major. Why is this useful knowledge . Why are you bothering with all this stuff . I can tell you personally i get those questions a lot because of my Research Specialty in the history of health and medicine. Science is so much better today. Why should we bother looking at the history of diseases and how he responded to them . My goal today is to give you an example of why bother and why i am proud to be a historian. Come on in, justin. Why i am really psyched about what i do. That is objective number one. I want to make you proud of being a history major, so here proud. Ay of saying i am my second goal is to talk specifically about pande
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall discussing his personality and skill as a storyteller and impact on their careers well hear from judges and harvard law professor and elena kagan. Im Doug Ginsburg and since nobody else seems here to do it, ill introduce our panel for this evening. This look back at Justice Thurgood marshall. To my immediate left if you have not guessed it Justice Elena kagan. Justice kagan was with Justice Marshall in what year. 87. Seems like yesterday, after having attended princeton and then oxford and then harvard for law and serviced in judge mcvaus chambers and all of our panelists served on a court. It was a good court. It was a great court. And was in the White House Council office and then Clinton Administration and then in the policy council as deputy director. Couldnt she keep a job apparently. Taught at university of Chicago Law School and then after getting tenure there moved on and settled at harvard. Not very long after that became the dean of Har