Visiting Lecturer of History, Georgia State University
Leslie Leighton is a medical historian. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, with high distinction, from the University of Virginia, an MD degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, a Master of Science degree in History from Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MA and PhD from Emory University. His PhD dissertation examined the cause of the decline in coronary artery disease mortality that occurred in the United States in the late 1960s. He has written book chapters and articles in major journals.
Quarantines have tried to keep out disease for thousands of years
Feb 04, 2020 12:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The recent global spread of a deadly coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China, has led world leaders to invoke an ancient tradition to control the spread of illness: quarantine. The practice is first recorded in the Old...
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