Tess Lanzarotta is a historian of medicine and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on health, capitalism, and the body in the twentieth century. Find her on Twitter @TessLanzarotta.
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Tess Lanzarotta is a historian of medicine and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on health, capitalism, and the body in the twentieth century. Find her on Twitter @TessLanzarotta.
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