COVID and our elders: a conversation with historian Megan Davies
In January 2022, historian Megan Davies (author of Into the House of Old: a history of residential care in British…
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The Value of a Nurse
The pandemic has made visible long-standing and systemic problems in the Canadian healthcare system. It is a publicly funded system,…
Diary of a critical care doctor: Preface
On February 27, 2020, I started a journal, not sure where such writings would lead. While I have written many…
Imagining Public Health in the Early 19th Century
Today, a significant portion of the global population has ready access to vaccines, clean water, and universal healthcare. COVID-19 has,…
Diary of the Cholera Horror in Liverpool
It was the year of 1832, May 17th to be exact, when the distemper had begun in Liverpool.[1] The city…
‘Bring out the Burkers!’
What Can Conspiracies Tell Us About Society? Cholera is a frightening bacterial disease that could become fatal in as little…
Does Cholera Now Prevail?
September 4, 1854 After 1849 I had hoped to never see Asiatic Cholera in London again. The hospitals have been…
On the Line: Love and Rage and Pandemics
By Esyllt Jones
One of my unfinished pandemic-era tasks has been to write a short biographical piece on Helen Jury Armstrong, the organizer of working class women, and the embodiment of love and fire in the Winnipeg General Strike. Here, I explore how the influenza pandemic highlighted her unique brand of labour activism.
Postage & Pestilence
Postage Stamps and Public Health Postage stamps, with their mass reproduction and global dissemination, provide a means to promote awareness…