Patrick J. Brennan, Anne Coxe Toogood, Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Section on Medical History
Time: 6:30pm
Location: College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Bring Out Your Dead (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993) is a classic study of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic and the massive impact it left on Philadelphia. Join us as the three co-authors of the introduction (Anne Coxe Toogood, Kenneth R. Foster, PhD, PE, and Mary F. Jenkins) to Bring Out Your Dead compare the response of the medical community to the 1793 yellow fever epidemic to that of contemporary responses to HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis A and B and other viruses. The speakers will set the social, demographic, geographic, and rudimentary medical context for the outbreak of this epidemic in 1793.
Joining the discussion will be College Fellow and Trustee Patrick J. Brennan, MD, FCPP, Chief Medical Officer for the Penn Health System, and an expert in the field of health care epidemiology and infection control, who will review contemporary strategies to handle outbreaks of deadly epidemics and other highly infectious diseases.
Co-sponsored by The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and The American Revolution Center. The lecture is supported by a grant from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation.
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