Epidemiologist Adrien Proust (1834-1903) in Simon Schama’s “Foreign Bodies” (2023)

As many readers of Simon Schama's "Foreign Bodies: The Terror of Contagion, the Ingenuity of Science" (2023) probably were, I was surprised ...

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How Adrien Proust—Father of Marcel—Helped Pioneer Global Public Health

Some years ago in Paris, in a moment of idle curiosity, and for very little money, I bought a short book about Marcel Proust’s father, Adrien. Its author was the physician Dr. Robert le Masle (also…

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