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”
Category Archives: Epidemic Literature
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”
Collaboration Beyond Boundaries: International Pandemic Sciences
In pandemic research, “the memory of trauma should propel us forward”. On 1st and 2nd July 2024, the UK team of the Media and Epidemics project presented a collaborative research poster at the International Pandemic Sciences (IPS) Conference. Hosted by the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford, the IPS conference invited multidisciplinary academicContinueContinue reading “Collaboration Beyond Boundaries: International Pandemic Sciences”
How to Stamp out a Disease? AIDS/HIV and Philately in Eastern Europe
“Protecting future generation from AIDS is our common cause!” Soviet postcard from 1989.(Author’s collection). One of the lenses through which the Polish team of the Media and Epidemics project views epidemics is through philately (the collection and study of postage stamps). This is a rather unexpected perspective, given that none of us are stamp collectors,ContinueContinue reading “How to Stamp out a Disease? AIDS/HIV and Philately in Eastern Europe”
Fun, Violent, Compliant? The Romanian Red Cross and Health Education for Children in the 1960s
Brochure disseminated by the Romanian Red Cross in 1963. Research on epidemics and technologies of communication is still scarce in Romania. The Romanian team focus is on documenting and understanding the socialist policies and practices of public health communications, which were applied by the Romanian authoritarian regimes after the second world war in order toContinueContinue reading “Fun, Violent, Compliant? The Romanian Red Cross and Health Education for Children in the 1960s”
New Colds for Old
‘Old Colds for New’, Punch, 18th January, 1890, p. 33. The Media and Epidemics project seeks to document, from historical and contemporary as well as trans-disciplinary and trans-regional perspectives, the role of media and technologies of communication in the making and management of epidemic outbreaks. The investigation of the British team focuses upon the transmission ofContinueContinue reading “New Colds for Old”
Media and Epidemics (MEDEP) 