New works celebrate Jewish scientist ‘eliminated from history’ Exclusive: Dramas pay homage to Waldemar Haffkine, who created vaccines for bubonic plague and cholera The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2024
Simon Schama's history of 18th and 19th century disease outbreaks speaks powerfully to the present Pandemics. Quarantine. Vaccines. These concepts have been at the forefront of our minds for over three years now. Having lived through the height of the COVID pandemic, it would be easy for us to imagine we have just experienced something unique in human history. The Conversation · Sep 3, 2023
Foreign Bodies by Simon Schama review – pandemics and prejudice The historian brings his considerable literary talents to this study of how blame, often mixed with antisemitism, has attended disease and vaccination through the ages The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2023