Do a little showandtell from my own research work, and the timing of this turned out that doing something Historical Perspective on pandemic preparedness might seem like a really interesting topic for us to is discuss. And i think i have mentioned to you all that i have been getting a lot of calls from journalists lately, and its kind of like, why in the middle of an ongoing pandemic are they calling up people like me . So i think this is a good thing for us to talk about. This is a history methods course. Its about how you whoops, went too fast there. How you become a historian and what you do for a living. You may remember the first week of class we talked a little bit about the reaction sometimes you may get from family members when they hear youre a history major or minor or taking a history course. Why is this useful knowledge . Why are you bothering with all of this old stuff . I can tell you personally, i get those questions a lot because of my Research Specialty in the history
Diseasefighting service. This Program Includes graphic scenes of disease that may be disturbing to some viewers. music the United States Public Health service as it exists today is a product of experience extending over nearly 150 years. It was initially created as a Marine Hospital service for the care of sick and disabled seamen. It was activated in an active congress signed by president john adams in 1798. The service was originally supported by a tax on american merchant seamen, but this was later abolished. The tax was collected by the treasury department. The Marine Hospital service came under the jurisdiction of that department, where it remains today. The first Marine Hospital in norfolk, virginia, the second built in boston, massachusetts. Some medical personnel were utilized by both the union and the confederacy for the care of wounded forces. It frequently happened that medical officers of the early Marine Hospitals were the first physicians to diagnose diseases such as chol
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