Australia has had more than 100 years to get its pandemic public health messaging right. Here’s what we have and haven’t learnt from the 1918 influenza pandemic.
- ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor of Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland
When “the world’s first laboratory-grown burger” was unveiled, cooked and eaten last week, the story received saturation news coverage. But was it really the first? Or was this story served up to a ravenous…
In May last year, a new attraction called The Ascent opened for a brief season in Brooklyn, New York. Described as “part art installation, part adventure ride and part spiritual journey,” The Ascent consisted…
MEDICAL HISTORIES - The second instalment in our short series examines how the spermatorrhoea epidemic changed the scope of medicine. Every period arguably invents its own illnesses, medical disorders…
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