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Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health in the 20th and 21st Centuries

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Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health in the 20th and 21st Centuries

This is a post by SUSAN SUDBURY. Susan is a fifth-year honours student completing a Bachelor of Advanced Humanities at the University of Queensland, Australia, where she is studying an extended major in English Literature. I am here reposting with permission a blog post that she wrote as part of the Media and Epidemics project. ...