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A trail is a short, ordered route through the atlas. Each stop says why it comes next, so a journey reads as an argument rather than a list. Start one, leave, and come back: your place is kept in this browser, and you do not need an account for that.
From a Berlin laboratory in 1891 to a Seattle data institute founded in 2007: six institutions, none of which existed before public health became an organized field.
6 stops
Six branches and concepts across the health atlas each carry an unresolved argument. This trail walks through what is contested in each field: how far screening should reach before its harms outweigh its benefits...
6 stops
Three mid-to-late twentieth century moments changed what the field knew, or thought it knew: a cohort of British doctors that proved smoking caused lung cancer, a Senate report that tried to tell Americans what to eat...
7 stops
How health became public: a walk through six moments where disease stopped being private misfortune and became something a society could measure, prevent and, once, abolish outright. It begins with a report on filth and...
6 stops
Public health began as local sanitation and ended the century writing treaties. This trail follows prevention as it scaled: a vaccine given to schoolchildren across one country, a charter that redefined health promotion...
5 stops
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