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The cook who became a pariah
| Anna Faherty
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
| Jacob Steere-WilliamsDark Matter
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
| Hannah CornishGergo Varga
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.