Stories
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The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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On contagion
Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.
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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
Catalogue
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Infectious diseases in livestock : scientific questions relating to the transmission, prevention and control of epidemic outbreaks of infectious disease in livestock in Great Britain / [The Royal Society].
Date: 2002- Archives and manuscripts
Papers relating to unpublished textbook Sexually Transmitted Diseases: A textbook of Genitourinary Medicine second edition, edited by Dr George Csonka
Date: 1990-1999Reference: PP/CSO/C/2Part of: Dr George Csonka: archives- Pictures
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Illustrated guide to segregating waste to prevent transmission of disease in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health and JSI, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 756071i- Books
Man against disease : preventive medicine / J.A. Muir Gray.
Gray, J. A. Muir (John Armstrong Muir)Date: 1979- Books
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A contribution to the knowledge of protection against infectious diseases / by Alfred Lingard ; communicated by E. Klein.
Lingard, Alfred.Date: [1889]