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The hell of hay fever
After years suffering in silence, David Jesudason finds speaking out about his pollen allergy gives him hope for a future where his hay-fever symptoms are under control.
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Coasting to catastrophe
In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.
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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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London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: viewed from the south. Coloured engraving.
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London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: viewed from the north. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1848.
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Fever.
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Report of the Committee for the Eastern Hospitals and ambulance station, for the year 1883.
Eastern Fever Hospital (London, England)Date: 1884- Books
Report of the Committee of the Eastern District Hospitals and ambulance station, for the year 1882.
Eastern District Fever Hospital (London, England)Date: 1883