Stories
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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard
Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.
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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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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Drafts of the plans of the Yellow Fever (West Africa) Commission, instructions to investigators, etc, 1912
Date: 1912Reference: GC/59/A/17Part of: Ross, Sir Ronald- Books
First report / Yellow Fever Commission (West Africa).
Yellow Fever Commission (West Africa)Date: [1913?]- Books
Second report / Yellow Fever Commission (West Africa).
Yellow Fever Commission (West Africa)Date: [1914?]- Books
Third report / Yellow Fever Commission (West Africa).
Yellow Fever Commission (West Africa)Date: [1915]- Books
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First report / Yellow Fever Commission (West Africa).
Yellow Fever Commission (West Africa)Date: [1913?]