In 1942, Henry Sigerist questioned the idea that "the German way in public health was to enforce health through the police while the English way consisted in acting through education and persuasion".2 Contrasts of this kind have, however, remained commonplace throughout the twentieth century.3 In the 1950s, George Rosen sought to reframe the history of public health in order to understand how i...

Wormhole solutions to the equations of general relativity have some spectacular local and global properties. As these unusual features are not explicitly forbidden by known physics, wormholes considered in various astrophysical cosmological scenarios. The paradigmatic traversable wormhole models described static spherically-symmetric Ellis--Morris--Thorne Simpson--Visser metrics. We show that n...