Medicine & Disease

Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys tell the fascinating story of how rabies – a disease that still kills thousands worldwide every year – was eradicated from Britain.

As Britain gets used to the ban on smoking in public spaces, Virginia Berridge looks at the way attitudes to public health have changed in the last fifty years, particularly among the medical profession.

Jane Bowden-Dan explores medical links between the Caribbean and London that throw important light on the position of blacks in eighteenth-century British society.

Krista Kesselring describes how coroners in the Early Modern period tried to establish the cause of death in disputed cases.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of December 12th, 1905.

Richard Cavendish marks the funeral of one of medicine's most eminent pioneers, on March 18th, 1955.

Yehuda Koren tells one family’s remarkable story of surviving Auschwitz.

Elizabeth A. Fenn examines a little known catastrophe that reshaped the history of a continent.