Stories
- In pictures
AIDS awareness posters from the 1980s onwards
The AIDS public health poster campaign chose print even in the internet age and dealt with issues of identity and behaviour like never before.
- In pictures
Superstition, contagion and medical rumour
The great generator of confusion, rumours have not spared human health from their chaos. Find out how whispers, gossip and rumours have caused medical mishaps through the ages.
- Article
Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Studies upon plague in ground squirrels (in four parts) ... : II. A plague-like disease of rodents / by George W. McCoy.
McCoy, George W.Date: 1911- Books
A history of plague in the United States of America / [Vernon B Link].
Link, Vernon B.Date: 1955]
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Report on plague in Queensland, 1900-1907 (26th February 1900 to 30th June 1907).
Burnett Ham, Bertie.Date: 1907- Books
The progress and diffusion of plague, cholera and yellow fever throughout the world, 1914-1917 / by R. Bruce Low.
Low, R. Bruce.Date: 1920
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Reports and papers on suspected cases of human plague in East Suffolk and on an epizootic of plague in rodents.
Great Britain. Local Government Board.Date: 1911