Stories
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
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.
- In pictures
Dark Matter responds to ‘Epidemic threats and racist legacies’
Animated-collage artist Dark Matter brings his unique combination of live footage and archive imagery to respond to a text suggesting that the field of epidemiology emerged in the 19th century imbued with the doctrine of Western imperialism.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
Catalogue
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Call for abstracts for annual medical conference on emerging non-communicable diseases in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by the Ethiopian Medical Association, 2005.
Date: 2005Reference: 754317i
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Call for abstracts for annual medical conference on emerging non-communicable diseases in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by the Ethiopian Medical Association, 2005.
Date: 2005Reference: 754315i- Books
Emerging infectious diseases from the global to the local perspective : a summary of a workshop of the Forum on Emerging Infections / Jonathan R. Davis and Joshua Lederberg, editors.
Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
The emergence of zoonotic diseases : understanding the impact on animal and human health : workshop summary / Tom Burroughs, Stacey Knobler, and Joshua Lederberg, editors ; Forum on Emerging Infections, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine.
Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
Emerging infectious diseases : trends and issues / edited by Felissa R. Lashley and Jerry D. Durham.
Date: [2007], ©2007