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Voices of Minnesota: Art Aufderheide and Clarke Chambers

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Dr. Art Aufderheide
University of Minnesota, Duluth medical doctor and paleoepidemiologist Dr. Art Aufderheide on an Arctic trip, one of his many journeys as he studies diseases of people from the past.
photo courtesy of Jim Brandenburg

This episode of MPR's Voices of Minnesota features conversations with Art Aufderheide and Clarke Chambers, two detectives of sorts.

Aufderheide is world famous for his study of mummies and the diseases that killed them. Chambers is a historian and the founder of a one-of-a-kind archive of social welfare history in this country.

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Dr. Art Aufderheide
University of Minnesota, Duluth medical doctor and paleoepidemiologist Dr. Art Aufderheide on an Arctic trip, one of his many journeys as he studies diseases of people from the past.
photo courtesy of Jim Brandenburg
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Clarke Chambers
University of Minnesota history professor emeritus Clarke Chambers, founder of the University of Minnesota's Social Welfare History Archives, a collection of the papers of hundreds of organizations detailing their history and efforts of unions, farm groups, advocacy groups for unwed mothers, women and much more.
Photo by Dan Olson