The Problem with Medical History in the Age of COVID-19

HS project co-leads Caitjan Gainty and Agnes Arnold-Forster reflect back in this think piece on how the history of medicine is used in public spaces and what they have learned as writers and historians working in the now pandemic charged healthcare history spaces. “When [medicine’s history] is revealed,” they write, “to be a practice that is shaped by society and culture and steeped in the industrial and capitalist logics that guide all the other areas of our lives, critique and change become not only viable, but something of a civic duty.”