by swanseahistory | Sep 13, 2023 | Modern History, Publications
Ninety years after the discovery of human influenza virus, Michael Bresalier’s new book, Modern Flu traces the history of this breakthrough and its implications for understanding and controlling influenza ever since. Examining how influenza came to be...
by swanseahistory | Aug 25, 2021 | History of Medicine, Research
Earlier this summer, Dr Michael Bresalier organised and chaired a virtual roundtable with the Society for the Social History of Medicine on the role of historians and history in pandemic policies and policy-making. The roundtable was organised to address a...
by swanseahistory | Jun 28, 2021 | History of Medicine, Public History, Research
Recently, Dr. Michael Bresalier gave two public lectures from a project he’s developing on “Learning to Live with Covid-19: Historical perspectives on how humanity adapts to epidemics”. The first lecture, “Learning to Live with Covid-19: What can the history of...