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