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Paul Shewkana was a distant cousin of Mona’s, an Iraqi immigrant to the U.S. who became the first bacteriologist to work in the country. After completing groundbreaking work on an outbreak of typhoid fever in Iowa and its connection to the consumption of unpasteurized milk, he passed away in an untimely and mysterious manner after his body was found below a railway trestle in Cedar Rapids. Mona considers Shekwana as a hero and an idol—not just because of her familial connection to him, but because of his work as a public health pioneer.
Paul Shekwana Quotes in What the Eyes Don’t See
The What the Eyes Don’t See quotes below are all either spoken by Paul Shekwana or refer to Paul Shekwana. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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Urban poverty is less lethal now, but in some respects, nothing has really changed. The environments of the cities we live in—their dirt and air, their violence and hopelessness and stress, their water—can still predict how long a life we will have.
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Chapter 18
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I was drawing on something deep inside me. Maybe it was the letters my mom received from Haji in Baghdad, or the pictures I’d seen of the gassing of the Kurdish babies. Maybe it was the tenacity and optimism of Mama Evelyn or the strength and integrity of my dissident parents. Maybe it was the inspiration of my heroes, fighters like Alice Hamilton. […] Or maybe there was even something in my DNA, an ancestral inheritance of persistence and rebellion and activism, handed down to me from the generations of prolific scribes who had hoped to keep Nestorian traditions alive, or from Nuri […] with his brave rebellion, or from Paul Shekwana with his passion for public health.
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Paul Shekwana Quotes in What the Eyes Don’t See
The What the Eyes Don’t See quotes below are all either spoken by Paul Shekwana or refer to Paul Shekwana. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 7
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Urban poverty is less lethal now, but in some respects, nothing has really changed. The environments of the cities we live in—their dirt and air, their violence and hopelessness and stress, their water—can still predict how long a life we will have.
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Chapter 18
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I was drawing on something deep inside me. Maybe it was the letters my mom received from Haji in Baghdad, or the pictures I’d seen of the gassing of the Kurdish babies. Maybe it was the tenacity and optimism of Mama Evelyn or the strength and integrity of my dissident parents. Maybe it was the inspiration of my heroes, fighters like Alice Hamilton. […] Or maybe there was even something in my DNA, an ancestral inheritance of persistence and rebellion and activism, handed down to me from the generations of prolific scribes who had hoped to keep Nestorian traditions alive, or from Nuri […] with his brave rebellion, or from Paul Shekwana with his passion for public health.
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