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People (4)
Clara Barton
Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross
Dorothea Dix
Reformer who transformed the treatment of the mentally ill in America
Jonas Salk
Developer of the first effective polio vaccine, 1955
Margaret Sanger
Birth control pioneer whose crusade for reproductive rights is inseparable from her eugenicist ideology
Events (5)
COVID-19 Pandemic
The 2020–2023 public health crisis that killed over a million Americans and transformed national life
Election of 2020
Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump in a pandemic election
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
The "Spanish flu" that killed more Americans than all the century's wars
The AIDS Epidemic
A public-health catastrophe that reshaped medicine and activism
The Hamburger
Contested origins, the 1904 fair, and the rehabilitation of ground beef
Documents (3)
Medicare and Medicaid Act
The 1965 Law That Created Health Coverage for the Elderly and the Poor
Social Security Act
The 1935 law that created the American social safety net
The Pure Food and Drug Act
The 1906 law that put the federal government inside the American food supply
Concepts (3)
Disasters in American History
The fires, floods, plagues, and catastrophes that shaped the nation
Fast Food
The automobile, the assembly-line kitchen, and the franchise that carried them worldwide
Medicine in America
From heroic bleeding to a research enterprise that leads the world
Technology (10)
Chemotherapy
Poison turned into medicine, from mustard gas to the first cures
Dialysis
The artificial kidney, the God Committee, and the one disease Congress covered
Ether Anesthesia
October 16, 1846 — the morning surgery stopped meaning agony
Organ Transplantation
From an identical-twin kidney in 1954 to a permanent scarcity
Salk Polio Vaccine
The 1955 vaccine that ended summer polio epidemics — and the doctor who refused to patent it
The Artificial Heart
The Jarvik-7, 112 days, and the limits of a machine
The Birth Control Pill
The oral contraceptive, approved for contraception in 1960
The Human Genome Project
Reading three billion base pairs, 1990 to 2003
The MRI
Magnetic resonance imaging and the soft body made visible
The Pacemaker
The wearable box and the implant that took over the heartbeat
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