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Manchester Lit & Phil members: Free
COVID-19 has opened up significant debates on public health, and the tolerance of society for interventions. This lecture takes a historical perspective, looking back to some of the key battlegrounds in nineteenth century cities between the public and the ‘state’, and reflecting on how changing patterns of ill-health have stimulated a fundamental resetting of our expectations on where the boundary lies between individual and societal responsibilities. Professor Sally Sheard is ideally placed to address the society on these issues, and this is a debate which could not be more topical. She works with local health authorities and government organisations providing historical context for contemporary health policy issues. She has written for and appeared in television and radio programmes, including Health Before the NHS, A House Through Time, Who Do You Think You Are?, How the Victorians Built Britain, and Woman’s Hour. In 2018, to mark the seventieth anniversary of the NHS, she was commissioned to write and present the twenty part BBC Radio 4 series, National Health Stories.
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