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Reproductive Legacies: Missionary Medicine and Demographic Change in Southeast Africa, 1890–Present
As the global population is projected to rise from 8.
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The WetNet: Pathogen Mobility and Fluid Bonding in Twentieth Century Biomedicine
My research, based in close discourse analysis of primary and secondary medical and legal literatures, offers a history of the hepatitis B virus and vaccine development in the period from 1940 to 1988.
Publication
History teaches everything
Macnab, Andrew. 2017. History teaches everything. Medical Teacher, 39(9), 997–998. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2016.1270446
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Sealing the Female Body Before Marriage: Cultural Debates about Hymeneal Signs
This project asks how reflections on the female body part called the hymen or maidenhead in early modern English texts (produced from 1500-1700) can illuminate modern debates about the set of modern surgical practices called hymenoplasty.
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Elie Metchnikoff: A Passionate Scientist
Elie Metchnikoff, Nobel laureate in Medicine and Physiology in 1908, is the father of innate immunity, the rapid, but non-specific defense against infection.
