Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Sultry women in the shadows. Skeletons peering up from under water. Rats scampering across the landscape. They’re the foreboding images emblazoned on public health posters over the last century. In a pre-television, pre-Internet era, they were often the best way to spread messages about everything from tuberculosis to gonorrhea. Kojo explores the iconography of public health in the 20th century.
Guests
- Michael Sappol Curator, "An Iconography of Contagion"; Historian, History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine
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