SWINY EVENT

Howard Markel on the Journey of Germs

Date: Sun., Nov. 21
The 92nd Street Y
92nd St. and Lexington Ave
Cost: $25

Join your SWINY colleagues at the 92nd Street Y for a gripping discussion
of germs, epidemics, and how globalization is affecting our health.

Learn how epidemics like tuberculosis, bubonic plague, cholera and AIDS
spread, what happened once they were identified, the effect they had on
immigration and how globalization can make us vulnerable to new diseases.
Howard Markel is the George E. Wantz Professor of the History of Medicine
and professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases at the University of
Michigan, where he directs the center for the History of Medicine. He is
the author of Quarantine! and When Germs Travel.

Sunday, Nov. 21st, at 7:30pm
The 92nd Street Y
92nd St. and Lexington Ave
cost: $25

to buy tickets, go to: http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?catalog=92y%5FCatalog&productid=T%2
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or go to www.92y.org and search for Markel
or call (212) 415-5500
Please BUY YOUR OWN TICKETS to the lecture.

Meet up for an optional, pay-your-own-way dinner with friendly SWINY folk
beforehand at this delicious, reasonably-priced Italian restaurant:

Ecco-La
93rd St and 3rd Ave

Meet at 6:00, then at 7:15 we will head to the 92nd Street Y for the
lecture.

RSVP for dinner only to Elizabeth Barden Ackerman,
elizabethbarden@hotmail.com.
Or 212-696-8332 (please use email if possible)

Please let me know if you want to come dinner, so that I can make a
reservation for the group.

See you there! (You may want to eat beforehand. ;-)