Stories
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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
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How architecture builds a profession of stress
Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.
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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.
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A clinical report of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear : with remarks on the objects and utility of the institution / by John Harrison Curtis.
Curtis, John Harrison, 1778-approximately 1860.Date: 1827- Books
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A clinical report of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear : with remarks on the objects and utility of the institution / by John Harrison Curtis.
Curtis, John Harrison, 1778-approximately 1860.Date: 1830- Books
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A clinical report of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear : with remarks on the objects and utility of the institution / by John Harrison Curtis.
Curtis, John Harrison, 1778-approximately 1860.Date: 1827- Books
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Eighteenth report of St Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital and Dispensary for Diseases of the Eye and Ear, Lincoln-place, 1863-'64.
St Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital (Dublin, Ireland)Date: 1864- Books
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Eighth report of St Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital and Dispensary for Diseases of the Eye and Ear, Lincoln-place, 1853-'54.
St Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital (Dublin, Ireland)Date: 1854