Stories
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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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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.
![An account of the jail-fever, or typhus carcerum: as it appeared at Carlisle in the year 1781 / [John Heysham].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0047102/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![An account of the jail-fever, or typhus carcerum: as it appeared at Carlisle in the year 1781 / [John Heysham].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0047103/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
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Typhus fever in the United States / Kenneth F. Maxcy.
Maxcy, Kenneth F. (Kenneth Fuller), 1889-1966.Date: 1968
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Typhus fever : its causes, treatment, and cure, by hydropathy ... / [Shew].
Shew, Joel, 1816-1855.Date: 1865- Books
Typhus fever with particular reference to the Serbian epidemic / Richard P. Strong [and others].
Date: 1920- Books
Typhus fever, typhod [sic] fever, relapsing fever, and febricula, the diseases commonly confounded under the term continued fever / Illustrated by cases collected at the bed-side.
Jenner, William, Sir, 1815-1898Date: 1849-1851]- Books
Typhus fever : with special reference to the Russian epidemics / by J.M. Mitchell, I.N. Asheshov and G.P.N. Richardson.
Mitchell, J. M. (James Mitchell)Date: 1922