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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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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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.
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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.
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Mittheilungen über die Cholera-Epidemie zu St. Petersburg im Sommer 1831 / von praktischen Aerzten daselbst, hrsg. und redigierte von Lichtenstädt und Seidlitz.
Date: 1831- Books
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An essay on the epidemic cholera : being an inquiry, into its new, or contagious character; including remarks on the treatment; as likewise, tables of the average rate of disease and mortality, recently occurring in London / by John Webster.
Webster John, 1795-1876.Date: 1832- Books
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Practical observations on the prevailing epidemic called cholera, ... Pt. 1 / by James Keir.
Date: 1848- Books
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The laws and progress of the epidemic cholera, illustrated by facts and observations / by Thomas Hancock.
Date: 1832- Books
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Die asiatische Cholera in Russland in den Jehren 1829 und 1830 / nach russischen amtlichen Quellen bearbeitet von J.R. Lichtenstadt.
Lichtenstädt, J. R. (Jeremias Rudolph), 1792-1849.Date: 1831