Measured Breath: Asthma, Diagnosis, and Death in Urban America

Time: 6:30pm

Location: College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Internist and historian Carla Keirns, MD, PhD, MSc, will share some findings and ideas from her forthcoming book on the history of asthma, a disease which has become alarmingly prevalent among both children and adults. Dr. Keirns, Assistant Professor and Director of the Program on the History of Medicine at Stony Brook University in New York, did her medical and historical training at the University of Pennsylvania. A question and answer session with the audience will follow the lecture.

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