The Shocking Origins of Epidemiology - Dr. Jim Downs, Gettysburg College

We take for granted today that public health systems around the
world have the capacity to trace the progression of outbreaks, to
determine how cancer clusters are linked to environmental
effects, how dirty water causes outbreaks of transmissible
illnesses... but where did all this knowledge come from? Contrary
to popular belief, it wasn't from John Snow's identifying the
origin of the Cholera epidemic as the pump on Broad Street. No,
John Snow was using techniques that were passed to him fully
formed. The real source of epidemiological tools lies in the
brutal and bloody arc of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, a
finding that shocked Gettysburg College history professor Jim
Downs when he found it buried in the dusty archives from which
his research is sourced.


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