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Dr. Susan L. Smith is a Professor of History in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. She is also a Fellow of the Institute for United States Policy Studies, a council member of the Science, Technology and Society Program, and a member of the advisory committee of the History of Medicine Program in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and the Faculty of Arts at the U of A.

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