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Head of State Immunity – a Useful Relic?

Head of State Immunity, once unchallengeable, may now seem an...

The First World War: Disease, The Only Victor

The First World War was the first major conflict in...

Designing IT to make Healthcare Safer

If preventable error in hospitals was a disease, it would...

Imported Plant Diseases

The current threat of ash dieback and the devastation to...

Fungal Threats to our Crops and Trees

Fungal infections present major threats to the health of the...

Unwelcome Guests: Human Diseases

Shakespeare wrote of island Britain as 'This fortress built by...

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...

Blue Funk and Yellow Peril

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

Using Mortality to Compare the Health of Populations