“Alden’s text is providing an example of the influenza pandemic’s indiscriminate nature of infection between classes, aligning with conclusions found in medical journals of the time.” What are the main epidemics that your team focuses on? I am a fourth and final year undergraduate student in a Bachelor of Advanced Humanities with the University ofContinueContinue reading “Meet the Team: Lily Burke”
Category Archives: Doctors
The Public Reception to TV Drama as a COVID-19 Information Source
“Film and TV can offer nuanced perspectives on complex issues and emotions that are often hard to grasp through traditional information channels”. Intensive care hospital fighting Covid-19 in Pesaro, Italy. Photo by Alberto Giuliani, Wikimedia Commons. March 19, 2020. As the most recent pandemic in history, COVID-19 had the unique position of being documented byContinueContinue reading “The Public Reception to TV Drama as a COVID-19 Information Source”
Disparaging Doctors and Mocking Masks: Medical and Media Relations during the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in Southern California
Open air barber shop during influenza epidemic. Reference: University of California, Berkeley, California, Wikimedia Commons. At the Media and Epidemics: Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health, 20th-21st Centuries Conference, held at the University of Bucharest in May 2024, panellist contributions revealed the prominent position of newspapers in promulgating medical truths or untruths, of shapingContinueContinue reading “Disparaging Doctors and Mocking Masks: Medical and Media Relations during the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in Southern California”
Meet the Team: Alexandria Vander Velde
“It will be interesting to see if and how COVID-19 presents itself in alternative forms of media in the future through literature, film, and art as both a roll-on effect from the pandemic and to communicate the significance of the event to future generations.” What are the main epidemics that your team focuses on? IContinueContinue reading “Meet the Team: Alexandria Vander Velde”
In Sickness and in Health: How the UK Media Urges Britain to Stick by Ailing NHS and Medical Staff
Photo by Nicolas J Leclercq on Unsplash. Two things struck me when researching media reporting on the medical profession in the UK: the number of issues in the National Health Service (NHS) and the fact that these issues have gone untreated for so long. I analysed articles from 2000 to 2024, and the problems inContinueContinue reading “In Sickness and in Health: How the UK Media Urges Britain to Stick by Ailing NHS and Medical Staff”
Media and Epidemics (MEDEP) 