Description
How do public policy decisions impact the treatment and spread of disease? The effects of diseases on human populations from prehistoric times through the present are examined alongside public perceptions of disease and major scientific breakthroughs in treatment and prevention. The ways that politics and public health policies enhance or impede progress in disease treatment are also explored, with particular attention to viral and bacterial diseases and their impact on society.
Marilyn London is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Maryland. She earned her MA from the University of New Mexico. Her career has included teaching at UMD and George Washington University, as well as working as a hospital epidemiologist. She has served as a forensic anthropologist with a federal disaster response team and assisted the Department of Defense in the recovery of the remains of US military Missing in Action (MIA) from World War II.