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From: Ruth I. Gordon <Druthgo>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:16:25 -0700
One of the serious problems for those who teach the sciences and acquire titles for collections is the rampant, almost medieval (as in
"Dark Ages") anti-science and anti-intellectual attitudes of a loud minority-led by the current administration in D.C. Strength is needed to battle those who would turn back to clocks to a simpler, gentler time--when typhoid, polio, unclean water, adulterated foods, diseases of poverty, etc., etc., ad naus., were common.
Which brings me to two books by James Cross Giblin, one about the history of clean milk and another about plagues old and new. Sibert Awardee Jim Murphy's excellent study of the Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia is a model.
Other areas where science might be viewed is sociology, history, nutrition, and laws regulating pharmaceuticals, food, living conditions, sanitation, architecture, civil engineering, disease, u.s.w.
Science can be everywhere.
Big Grandma
Received on Thu 14 Jul 2005 02:16:25 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:16:25 -0700
One of the serious problems for those who teach the sciences and acquire titles for collections is the rampant, almost medieval (as in
"Dark Ages") anti-science and anti-intellectual attitudes of a loud minority-led by the current administration in D.C. Strength is needed to battle those who would turn back to clocks to a simpler, gentler time--when typhoid, polio, unclean water, adulterated foods, diseases of poverty, etc., etc., ad naus., were common.
Which brings me to two books by James Cross Giblin, one about the history of clean milk and another about plagues old and new. Sibert Awardee Jim Murphy's excellent study of the Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia is a model.
Other areas where science might be viewed is sociology, history, nutrition, and laws regulating pharmaceuticals, food, living conditions, sanitation, architecture, civil engineering, disease, u.s.w.
Science can be everywhere.
Big Grandma
Received on Thu 14 Jul 2005 02:16:25 PM CDT
