Leslie S. Leighton

Leslie S. Leighton

Visiting Lecturer of History, Georgia State University

Leslie Leighton earned a BA degree from the University of Virginia, an MD degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, a Master of Science degree in History from Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MA and PhD from Emory University. His PhD dissertation examined the cause of the decline in coronary artery disease mortality in the United States in the late 1960s. He’s written book chapters and articles in major journals. He teaches survey American history and the history of public health and medicine at Georgia State University and lectures on the history of heart disease in America.

Articles by: Leslie S. Leighton

Students are taken to a special army facility as a precaution against the possible coronavirus infection on their return from China, at Indira Gandhi International Airport, on Feb. 1, 2020 in New Delhi, India. The passengers were evacuated from Wuhan and will be kept in isolation for 14 days in Chhawla in Delhi.

Stopping the spread of coronavirus: Quarantines go back thousands of years

By Leslie S. Leighton published

The recent global spread of a deadly coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China, has led world leaders to invoke an ancient tradition to control the spread of illness: quarantine.