Howard Markel

University of Michigan

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Director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, and Professor of Pediatrics, Communicable Diseases and Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health; author of Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 and When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics that Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed

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