
History’s outbreaks, policies and turning points in public health - and the lessons they keep teaching us.
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This is the 1st post from my five-part series, Anti-Vaccine Movement Through the Centuries. It explores the earliest roots of vaccine resistance, focusing on opposition to the smallpox vaccination and laws in Victorian Britain. This history...
Akkadian clay dog figurines found in Nineveh, Iraq. Courtesy of Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid. Fair use for commentary and non-commercial purposes.
I was scouring the internet for ideas to write about ancient diseases when I found an article from...
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Ego fvlcio collumnas eius (“I support its columns”), c.1590. The Inca stands on Cerro Rico at Potosí, symbolising how Andean labour and silver wealth upheld Spanish imperial power. Illustration in Martín de Murú...
Left: South Korean poster promoting family planning. Translation: “Don’t discriminate between boys and girls, have only two children and raise them well.” Source: https://koreabridge.net/post/illustrated-history-family-planning-korea-intram...
An 1862 oil painting by Frederic Edwin Church, depicting Cotopaxi, an active volcano in modern-day Ecuador spewing smoke and ash across a colorful sunrise.
When it comes to climate change, we often refer to the “now” of things- how and why...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
I’m an editor at Nature Medicine, working in epidemiology, public and global health. I write here to explore how history shapes the way we think about health today. Views are my own.
Historian, speaker and writer about the history of medicine - especially quacks and patent remedies. Also co-host of the literature podcast She Wrote Too.
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