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Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award

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Sponsoring Organization: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Award Level: Winner| Award Year: 2024
Winner(s): Lazaretto: How Philadelphia Used an Unpopular Quarantine Based on Disputed Science to Accommodate Immigrants and Prevent Epidemics, by David Barnes

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David S. Barnes

David Barnes (PHILADELPHIA, PA) is an associate professor of the history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs.
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