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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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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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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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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Annual report / Department of Public Health, Endemic Diseases Section.
Egypt. Qism al-Amrāḍ al-Mutawaṭṭinah.Date: [1934]
- Books
- Online
Annual report / Department of Public Health, Endemic Diseases Section.
Egypt. Qism al-Amrāḍ al-Mutawaṭṭinah.Date: [1935]
- Books
- Online
Annual report / Department of Public Health, Endemic Diseases Section.
Egypt. Qism al-Amrāḍ al-Mutawaṭṭinah.Date: [1936]
- Books
- Online
Annual report / Department of Public Health, Endemic Diseases Section.
Egypt. Qism al-Amrāḍ al-Mutawaṭṭinah.Date: [1938]- Journals
Annual report / Department of Public Health, Endemic Diseases Section.
Egypt. Qism al-Amrāḍ al-Mutawaṭṭinah.Date: 1934-