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Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen

Joshua Freeman

Released: Dec 22, 2018

Until the 1920’s, a diagnosis of diabetes was a death sentence. The invention of insulin changed that, and – not incidentally – saved his life. It also made him value the social stability needed to produce it. A conversation with this professor of history at Queens College, author of Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World.