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Health by Design: How Infectious Disease Shaped the American Home
NOTE: This discussion group will be HYBRID at the Walnut Hills Branch Library and also via Zoom.
Much of our built environment was specifically designed to avoid the spread of diseases such as cholera, influenza, and tuberculosis. Journalist Elizabeth Yuko connects the early home design writing of Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe to the modern-day impact of disease and pandemics on home design today.
About the speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is an award-winning journalist and bioethicist, and an adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, CNN, Teen Vogue, Playboy, Architectural Digest, CityLab, Reader’s Digest, Lifehacker, Ms. Magazine, Vulture, Popular Mechanics, Salon and Refinery29 among others. She was previously the Health & Sex Editor for SheKnows Media.
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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/1552876-0
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/1552876-2
