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Voices In Time

c. 1100 BC | India

Out, Damned Spot

An ancient prescription for treating fever.More

Voices In Time

1797 | New York City

Homeland Insecurity

Noah Webster knows the danger is already among us.More

Voices In Time

1918 | Atlantic Ocean

Pro Patria Mori

Willa Cather watches an outbreak and funeral at sea.More

Voices In Time

c. 1728 | England

Custom of the Country

Voltaire the vaccination tourist.More

Voices In Time

1665 | London

Supply Chain

Daniel Defoe finds safe harbor on the water.More

Voices In Time

c. 30 | Galilee

Be Thou Clean

Jesus greets a leper.More

Voices In Time

1832 | Paris

Dirty Dancing

Heinrich Heine sees a mob arise from an epidemic.More

Voices In Time

1869 | London

Disease Profiling

An argument against biased legislation.More

Voices In Time

1520 | Iximche

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

An accounting of the pestilence.More

Voices In Time

1824 | London

Against Contagion

Charles Maclean decries the “terror” of sanitary laws.More

Voices In Time

1497 | Tuscany

Out of Sight

George Eliot follows a Good Samaritan.More

Voices In Time

1665 | London

Plague Posts

Samuel Pepys blogs a pandemic.More

Voices In Time

2094 | Windsor

Duty Free

Mary Shelley presents a leader unequal to the moment.More

Voices In Time

1911 | Venice

Safety First

Thomas Mann uncovers a hidden cholera epidemic.More

Voices In Time

1939 | Princeton, NJ

Super Spreader

S. Josephine Baker tracks down Typhoid Mary.More

Voices In Time

1624 | London

Anxiety Attacks

John Donne unspools his fears.More

Voices In Time

1815 | Naples

Preventive Care

Urban planning for public health.More

Voices In Time

1789 | Bedfordshire

Isolation Wards

Taking a tour of the lazarettos.More

Voices In Time

1666 | Blazing World

Contact Tracing

Margaret Cavendish investigates how the spotted plague is spread.More

Voices In Time

1634 | Plymouth Colony

Do Unto Others

William Bradford recounts an invisible invasion.More

Voices In Time

1820 | Naples

Cruise-Ship Quarantine

John Keats says goodbye.More

Voices In Time

1662 | London

Statistical Significance

John Graunt crunches the numbers.More

Voices In Time

2013 | San Francisco

Apocalypse Now

A grandfather recounts the plague times.More

Voices In Time

1592 | Croydon

Last Words

Thomas Nashe pens a poem of plague.More

Voices In Time

1892 | New York City

Land Grant

Designating a place to put the plagued.More

Voices In Time

c. 27 BC | Rome

Fresh Air

Vitruvius wants to breathe easily.More

Voices In Time

c. 1844 | Manchester

Means of Destruction

Friedrich Engels on the conditions inflicted upon the working class.More

Voices In Time

1912 | Wyandotte, OK

Safe at Last

Catherine Johnson on a time-tested immunity booster.More

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