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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Two Koreas, two population crises
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...
Before climate change, there were volcanoes
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...
Guatemala's hidden experiments
Archival photographs of Guatemalan participants (identities obscured) from a psychiatric hospital connected to the sexually transmitted disease experiments conducted by the US Public Health Service in1946–48.
“My father didn’t know how t...
Mummies were never meant to be a medical archive
The god Anubis attends to the mummy of Amennakht in the afterlife. Wall painting from Theban Tomb 218.
Disturbing a mummy is rarely a good idea. The dead will escape their cases, return to life and chase after you through the catacombs… or...
The Vikings weren’t as healthy as you’d think
One of the Överhogdal tapestries, depicting ships, animals and human figures that evoke the mobility that connected Viking communities, but also widened their exposure to disease ca. 1040-1170 CE.
Author’s note: previously examined how Vi...
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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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