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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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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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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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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The patient as victim and vector : ethics and infectious disease / Margaret P. Battin [and others].
Date: 2009- Books
Evolution of infectious disease / Paul W. Ewald.
Ewald, Paul W.Date: 1994- Books
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Essais sur les maladies héréditaires : considérées sous les rapports de leur nature, de leur origine ou formation, de leur transmission, des moyens d'en prévenir la transmission, de corriger ou détruire les dispositions à ces maladies, et d'en empêcher le développement, enfin, du traitement qu'elles reclament, une fois qu'elles sont développés / par A. Petit.
Petit, Antoine.Date: 1817- 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]- Books
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Sur le paludisme congénital : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue devant la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le jeudi 3 juillet 1902 / par Léon Hitte.
Hitte, Léon.Date: 1902