Stories
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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
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The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
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Fake news and the flu
Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.
Catalogue
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Forty days : quarantine and the traveller, c. 1700-1900 / John Booker.
Booker, John, 1941-Date: 2022- Videos
Invisible enemies. Part 3, Epidemics - products of progress.
Date: 1992- Books
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Thesis on the nature and history of plague, as observed in the North-Western Provinces of India, for which a gold medal was awarded by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Edinburgh. To which are added remarks on the present state of the quarantine laws / by Frederick Forbes.
Date: 1840- Books
Vivre en quarantaine das les ports de Marseille aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles : 17 mars - 13 juin 1987 / [Musée d'Histoire de Marseille].
Musée d'histoire de Marseille.Date: [1987?]- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence and C.V.
Date: 1974-c.1993Reference: PSY/YAT/2/5Part of: Yates, Aubrey James (1925-c.1999) papers