Infectious Diseases Episodes

In this episode, Daisy and Olivia discuss some Is in the history of medicine: insomnia, itch, and iron.

Delves into the history of respiratory medicine and modern-day respiratory medicine practice.

Delves into the history of infectious diseases and modern-day infectious disease practice.

Dr Derek Sloan, who has worked in both high and low-income countries, considers why tuberculosis (TB) still remains a threat and what can be done to combat this disease.

Essential but Suspect Medical Practitioners in Nuremberg, 1495–1560, by Dr Mona O'Brien.

Anna Dhody talks about the ways scientists are looking to the past to improve our future.

Mona O’Brien explores how Europeans came to understand syphilis and some of the measures that they enacted in an attempt to control it during the period from the first pandemic outbreak (c.1495) until the 17th century.

Dr Noelle Gallagher explores the weird and wonderful cultural life of deformed noses in eighteenth-century British literature and art.

Considers continuity and change in the attitudes and advice given by doctors between 1500 and 1700 regarding the plague.

Tracey Jolliffe discusses the science of syphilis in the 21st century.

Professor John Henderson argues that it is time to re-examine and reassess early modern Italian policies dealing with plague.

Anna Dhody talks about the ways scientists are looking to the past to improve our future.

Explores popular reactions to the ‘great influenza’ of 1918-20, primarily in relation to other epidemics of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Dr Catherine Jones examines the links between Benjamin Rush’s autobiography ‘Travels through Life’ and his protracted feud with William Cobbett.

Prof Anne Hardy discusses how forensic and investigative techniques were used to study epidemics in the 19th and 20th centuries.

"Poems on Plagues: Thomas Sprat and the Later History of the Plague of Athens", examines responses to Thucydides’ narrative of the plague of Athens.