Stories
- 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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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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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.
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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
Catalogue
- Books
Imperialism and the natural world / edited by John M. MacKenzie.
Date: [1990], ©1990- Books
Imperialism and motherhood / by Anna Davin.
Davin, AnnaDate: 1978- Books
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Imperialism : a study / by J.A. Hobson.
Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson), 1858-1940Date: 1975- Books
Imperialism, health and medicine / edited by Vicente Navarro.
Date: 1982- Books
Imperialism and medicine in Bengal : a socio-historical perspective / Poonam Bala.
Bala, Poonam, 1958-Date: 1991