Health Checks on History
Ming Yang, Caroline RanceHistory’s outbreaks, policies and turning points in public health - and the lessons they keep teaching us.
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The Great Fire of London didn’t end the plague
A coloured version of the 1666 print of the Great Fire of London. Source: ©The London Museum, originally from the book “Shlohavot, or, The burning of London in the year 1666” by Samuel Rolle. Fair use for non-commercial, educational purpose...
Ebola at 50, same systems failures
Two nurses standing beside a patient with Ebola, who later died at Ngaliema Hospital in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1976.
On 15 May 2026, Ebola returned once more to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 50 years...
How Big Tobacco fooled the world
A mid-20th century advertisement from the tobacco company Camel claiming that doctors endorsed their brand. It shows how deeply cigarettes had been woven into ordinary life before epidemiological evidence made their harms impossible to igno...
What I learnt writing about health history
When I started Health Checks on History in May 2025, I wanted a space to explore the histories of health and disease with greater depth and curiosity. As a public health editor of a Nature journal, it has also given me room to step beyond t...
Disease helped decide the Crusades
A medieval depiction of crusading warfare: the Battle of Dorylaeum, 1147. Source: Estoire d’Eracles.
We tend to remember the Crusades as if they were an overproduced medieval war film with glittering armour, lots of banners, and men with f...
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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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