(on Alfred W. Crosby, America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918, Cambridge University Press, 2003; originally published as Epidemic and Peace, 1918. Greenwood Press 1976) The Spanish Flu of 1918 seems to be, at least in the American press, the most commonly invoked historical comparison and the place where lessons for Covid-19

(on Tognotti, E. (2009). The Rise and Fall of Syphilis in Renaissance Europe. Journal of Medical Humanities, 30(2), 99–113) Indirect knowledge prevails in the public discourse about health and medicine, and what we have been confronted with lately with the Corona pandemic illustrates and affirms that. The point is that discourses