Stories
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Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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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.
Catalogue
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Asiatic Society of Bengal : Medical Section.
Date: [1909]- Books
Medical Society : Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Date: [1908]- Journals
Journal and proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)Date: 1905-1934- Books
Concise descriptive catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the Curzon Collection, Asiatic Society of Bengal / Wladimar Ivanow.
Asiatic Society of Bengal.Date: 1926- Journals
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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Asiatic Society of Bengal.Date: 1865-1904