Opinion Articles
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Soldiering a pandemic: the threat of militarized rhetoric in addressing Covid-19
Christoph Laucht and Susan T. Jackson explore the language leaders deploy to map certainty onto an uncertain, frightening time – but at what cost to international co-operation, and to individual empowerment?
Read MoreA matter of life and death: football, conflict and the coronavirus
Tosh Warwick on the precedents for dealing with sporting fixture postponement and cancellation, from smallpox outbreaks of previous eras.
Read MoreHospital visiting in epidemics: an old debate reopened
Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz on the history of access to infectious patients, and how hospitals are tackling emotional contact, support and grief in the current crisis.
Read MoreOn infection parties, herd immunity and other half-truths
The history of smallpox's eradication shows how risky attempts at creating immunity can be, says Anita Guerrini.
Read MoreDoes Coronavirus spell the end for neoliberalism?
Adrian Williamson asks what the government's stimulus plan of March might mean for the future.
Read MoreCovid-19 and the 1918 ‘Spanish ‘flu’: differences give us a measure of hope
Michael Bresalier shows that the backdrop of war to the 1918 pandemic, as well as the lack of global governance and the state of clinical knowledge, formed very different circumstances to those of today.
Read MoreEpidemic control in Chinese public health: past and present
Mary Augusta Brazelton relates the history of a public health approach that has incorporated coercion, persuasion, education – and most recently, “medical diplomacy”
Read MoreOcado for all – lessons from Second World War transport logistics
As supermarkets battle with shortages and vulnerable customers suffer, there are lessons we can learn from co-operation between companies and local and national government, says Mark Roodhouse
Read MoreEpidemics and ‘essential work’ in early modern Europe
Kevin Siena explores the redefinition of 'essential work' and notes that this is not the first time the economically disadvantaged have been pushed into the front line of disease
Read MoreBlitz spirit won’t help ‘Win the Fight’ against Covid-19
The myth of the Blitz spirit could be actively dangerous, says Henry Irving – we need to define a Coronavirus spirit of our own, where engaged citizenship encourages social distancing
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