Stories
- Article
Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
- Article
The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Videos
- Online
AIDS your choice for life.
Date: 1987- Books
Intimacy and responsibility : the criminalisation of HIV transmission / Matthew Weait.
Weait, MatthewDate: 2007- Books
The heart attack survival guide / Mark Greener.
Greener, MarkDate: 2012- Ephemera
Heart disease ephemera. Box 2.
- Ephemera
Cancer ephemera. Box 1.