The history of anti-drug campaigns in Canada brings out the equal parts played by international politics and public health concerns.
The 1821 yellow fever outbreak in Barcelona made clear the political dimensions of public health legislation.
Did excess mortality among the Great War insane result from a political choice?
In 1804, the outbreak of a suspicious disease in Livorno led to strong tensions between the Italian states.
In the mid-1970s, the near-death experience emerged as a new spiritual manifestation within medicine, at the heart of a policy of survivors and their trauma.
In 1961, the publication of an ex-internee’s memoir instigated a mental health policy reform in the State of Quebec.
Tobacco control, for all that it serves unquestionable health purposes, remains steeped in political issues