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The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
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Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
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Reports on the extent and nature of the materials available for the preparation of a medical and surgical history of the rebellion / War Department, Surgeon General's Office.
Date: 1866- Books
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Directions for medicine chests : with a treatise of the diseases most incident of seamen.
Date: 1817- Books
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Debates which arose in the House of Representatives of South Carolina, on the Constitution framed for the United States, by a convention of delegates, assembled at Philadelphia.
South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital; from its first rise to the beginning of the fifth month, called May, 1754 / [Benjamin Franklin].
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.Date: 1817- Books
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Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital : from its first rise to the beginning of the fifth month, called May, 1754.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.Date: 1817