David S. Barnes

David Barnes is Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of "Lazaretto: How Philadelphia Used an Unpopular Quarantine Based on Disputed Science to Accommodate Immigrants and Prevent Epidemics." His previous books include "The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs" and "The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France." His teaching and writing focus on the history and politics of public health, the dynamics of epidemics, historic preservation, and the presentation of history for general audiences. He lives in Philadelphia.