Dr Alana Skuse

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You're Dead to Me · Renaissance Medicine (Radio Edit) · 8 May 2026 podcast

But we also have to remember that this is the birth of a lot of the public health that we now know.

So we've seen the plague and you have public health measures there.

But we also have things like welfare.

Because after the dissolution of the monasteries, the monasteries who've been looking after people, they can't do that anymore.

And there's kind of chaos for about 70 years.

And then Elizabeth, as in Elizabeth I, recognises that she needs to bring in an act for the welfare of maimed soldiers because there's so many wars.

There are so many people with disabilities coming home.

And that act gets tinkered with over the next 300 years.

It's basically the origins of the welfare system.

The other thing we have is hospitals.

And that's, again, driven by war because the civil wars, you need hospitals for people.

It's a whole propaganda thing of who has the best hospitals.

So you get more hospitals being used as training centres and more hospitals in general.

So at the end of the 17th century, you get new hospitals or expansions of hospitals like Chelsea, St Thomas, Guy's, Westminster.

They're all produced during that period.

So we have quite a lot of hangover from that time in the good as well as the horrible stuff that we always think about.

Okay, so you're right.

What I write about is mostly the early modern period because I write 16th and 17th centuries, 1500s and 1600s.

But you cannot put early modern in a book like 450 times.

So we just have to go with Renaissance because that's what everybody knows.

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