"Doctors the scapegoats for cholera", by the philosopher Anne-Marie Moulin

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During the 19th century cholera epidemic. Universal Images Group via Getty Images

By: Caroline Lachowsky

Doctors and caregivers are celebrated and thanked today, but it has not always been so. This is what the historian and philosopher Anne-Marie Moulin tells us.

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Anne-Marie Moulin will continue on this terrible paradox of doctors and caregivers as scapegoats at the time of the first Ebola epidemics.

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