Stories
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The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
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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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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
Catalogue
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Notes on typhoid and remittent fevers in the Cape, Natal, and Zululia / by W.T. Black.
Black, William Thomas, 1824-1909.Date: 1879- Books
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On atmospheric conditions influencing the prevalence of typhus fever / by Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw.
Grimshaw, Thomas Wrigley, 1839-1900.Date: 1866- Books
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Some account of a fever in the year 1831 / by George Leith Roupell.
Roupell, George Leith, 1797-1854.Date: 1837- Books
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Boden und Grundwasser in ihren Beziehungen zu Cholera und Typhus : Erwiederung auf Rudolph Virchow's hygienische Studie Canalisation oder Abfuhr / von Max v. Pettenkofer.
Pettenkofer, Max von, 1818-1901.Date: 1869- Books
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Practical observations on the treatment, pathology, and prevention of typhous fever / By Edward Percival.
Percival, Edward, 1783?-1819.Date: 1819