Stories
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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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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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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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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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- Archives and manuscripts
India
Date: Mar 1930-Mar 1948Reference: SA/CRC/G.4Part of: Cancer Research Campaign, formerly British Empire Cancer Campaign- Journals
Triennial report on the lunatic asylums in Bengal.
Bengal (India). Medical Department.- Journals
Annual returns of the lunatic asylums in Bengal with brief notes.
Bengal (India). Medical Department.- Journals
Annual report on the working of the hospitals and dispensaries in Bengal.
Bengal (India). Medical Department.- Journals
Annual report of the mental hospitals in Bengal.
Bengal (India). Medical Department.Date: 1922-