Public Health Episodes

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.

Delves into the history of public health and modern-day public health practice.

‘Inadmissable and Cruel': Fear and Risk in Britain’s Post War Fluoride Debate, by Professor Glen O'Hara.

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.

Explores and explains the changing place of the public within public health in post-war Britain.

Explores how the development of an understanding of the principles of public health in wartime during the late nineteenth century helped to protect troops exposed to the challenging conditions of the First World War.

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

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

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

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

Combines history of science, food and culture and applies these to Anglo-German relations and perceptions by examining how between 1850-1914 the German sausage was used as a metaphor for the German nation.

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