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Lessons from the Past, Warnings for the Future

The concluding lecture takes the example of HIV/AIDS and discusses...

'The Great Unwashed'

Typhus, the subject of the fifth lecture in the series, was...

Blue Funk and Yellow Peril

‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth century...

Using Mortality to Compare the Health of Populations

New Insights Into Mortality Patterns of Early Modern Cities

Mortality Past and Present: John Graunt's Bills of Mortality - Introduction

An introduction to the conference marking the 350th anniversary of the...

The White Plague

The third lecture in the series deals with tuberculosis, of all...

The Great Pox

The sexually transmitted disease syphilis is generally thought to have been...

The Black Death

Bubonic plague first swept Europe in the age of Justinian, in...

Twenty-first Century Threats: Malaria

In 1955, the World Health Organization announced an ambitious plan...