Heather John
Author
Heather John is a physician, with a psychiatry practice focusing on psychotherapy, in the Philadelphia area. She trained as a historian of science and medicine, with doctoral work on the history of medical education, and research interests in the histories of disease, religion, and activism, as seen in controversy over the use of the term “leprosy.” She has degrees from Stanford, the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, and Yale, with clinical training at Northwestern and UCLA.
- By Heather John
A World Without Vaccines: A History of Smallpox
A science historian gives us a glimpse into severity of smallpox and the road to its eradication in America to depict what life was like before vaccination existed to help protect populations from disease.