Hypodermics on the Shore
The “syringe tides”—waves of used hypodermic needles, washing up on land—terrified beachgoers of the late 1980s. Their disturbing lesson was ignored.
Jeremy Greene
Jeremy Greene teaches history and medicine at Johns Hopkins University and sees patients in a community-health center in Baltimore. He is the author of Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine.
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