Infectious Diseases Episodes
Ep.12 - Past & Present - Respiratory
Nov. 25, 2022
Delves into the history of respiratory medicine and modern-day respiratory medicine practice.
Ep.11 - Past & Present - Infectious Diseases
Nov. 11, 2022
Delves into the history of infectious diseases and modern-day infectious disease practice.
Ep.69 - Derek Sloan - Spitting Blood - Current Approaches To Tuberculosis Treatment
Oct. 29, 2021
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.
Ep.66 - Mona O'Brien - Essential but Suspect Medical Practitioners in Nuremberg, 1495–1560
Sept. 17, 2021
Essential but Suspect Medical Practitioners in Nuremberg, 1495–1560, by Dr Mona O'Brien.
Ep.65 - Anna Dhody - The Mütter Research Institute
Sept. 3, 2021
Anna Dhody talks about the ways scientists are looking to the past to improve our future.
Ep.57 - Mona O’Brien - Controlling An Angry Dog - Understanding And Managing The French Disease
May 14, 2021
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.
Ep.45 - Noelle Gallagher - Syphilitic Noses In Eighteenth Century British Literature And Art
Nov. 27, 2020
Dr Noelle Gallagher explores the weird and wonderful cultural life of deformed noses in eighteenth-century British literature and art.
Ep.44 - Jane Stevens - Books and Beaks: Doctors’ Fight Against the Plague in Early Modern Europe
Nov. 13, 2020
Considers continuity and change in the attitudes and advice given by doctors between 1500 and 1700 regarding the plague.
Ep.43 - Tracey Jolliffe - Syphilis In The 21st Century
Oct. 30, 2020
Tracey Jolliffe discusses the science of syphilis in the 21st century.
Ep.38 - John Henderson - Coping With Plague - Public Health And Epidemics
Aug. 21, 2020
Professor John Henderson argues that it is time to re-examine and reassess early modern Italian policies dealing with plague.
Ep.35 - Anna Dhody - Looking To The Past To Improve Our Future
July 10, 2020
Anna Dhody talks about the ways scientists are looking to the past to improve our future.
Ep.28 - Samuel Cohn - ‘The great influenza’ of 1918-20: A plague of compassion
June 10, 2020
Explores popular reactions to the ‘great influenza’ of 1918-20, primarily in relation to other epidemics of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ep.17 - Catherine Jones - Benjamin Rush, the Yellow Fever, and the Rise of Physician Autobiography
June 10, 2020
Dr Catherine Jones examines the links between Benjamin Rush’s autobiography ‘Travels through Life’ and his protracted feud with William Cobbett.
Ep.18 - Anne Hardy - Epidemiology and the Science of Detection, 1890-1960
June 10, 2020
Prof Anne Hardy discusses how forensic and investigative techniques were used to study epidemics in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Ep.3 - Helen King - Poems On Plagues: Thomas Sprat And The Later History Of The Plague Of Athens
June 10, 2020
"Poems on Plagues: Thomas Sprat and the Later History of the Plague of Athens", examines responses to Thucydides’ narrative of the plague of Athens.