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Tag: public health history
Societies & Responses
The Red Cross on the Door
Inside London's plague houses, where a public-health order could turn a family home into a place of confinement.
Lessons for Today
The Invention of Quarantine
Six centuries before germ theory, a small Adriatic city decided that waiting was worth the cost — and gave the world the number forty.
Societies & Responses
Behind the Beak: The Plague Doctor, the Myth and the Evidence
An unsettling mask, a pocketful of perfume and a story that is not quite what it seems — what the evidence actually says about…