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Christopher J. Phillips

Christopher J. Phillips is a historian of science and of twentieth-century America. He is an Assistant Professor in Carnegie Mellon's History Department.

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Science & Nature

How Good Health Became a Numbers Game

It is no longer necessary to feel ill in order to be ill.

Christopher J. Phillips

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