Public Health 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.7 - Past & Present - Public Health
Sept. 16, 2022
Delves into the history of public health and modern-day public health practice.
Ep.58 - Glen O'Hara - ‘Inadmissable and Cruel’ Fear and Risk in Britain’s Post-War Fluoride Debate
May 28, 2021
‘Inadmissable and Cruel': Fear and Risk in Britain’s Post War Fluoride Debate, by Professor Glen O'Hara.
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.55 - Alex Mold - Placing the public in public health: Public health in Britain, 1948-2010
April 16, 2021
Explores and explains the changing place of the public within public health in post-war Britain.
Ep.53 - Beverly Bergman - Military Public Health from the Crimea to World War One
March 19, 2021
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.
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.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.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.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.4 - Keir Waddington - Food, Fear And Public Health In Victorian And Edwardian Britain
June 10, 2020
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.
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.