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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Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
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How online dating can make us lonely
The packed diary of an internet dater doesn’t necessarily denote fun, companionship and love. Find out what Christina Patterson learned on her internet-dating odyssey.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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On the effects of volcanic action in the production of epidemic diseases in the animal and in the vegetable creation, and in the production of hurricanes and abnormal atmospheric vicissitudes : the Parkin prize essay of 1901 / by W. G. Aitchison Robertson.
Date: 1901- Books
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Report on the meteorology of London, and its relation to the epidemic of cholera / by James Glaisher.
Date: 1855- Books
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Anno undecimo & duodecimo Victoriæ Reginæ. Cap. CXXIII. An act to renew and amend an act of the tenth year of her present majesty, for the more speedy removal of certain nuisances, and the prevention of contagious and epidemic diseases. (4th September 1848.).
Date: [1848]- Books
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Influenza, or, Epidemic catarrhal fever : an historical survey of past epidemics in Great Britain from 1510-1890 / by E. Symes Thompson.
Date: 1890- Videos
The epidemic of Mad Cow Disease in the U.K / Roy Anderson.
Date: 1997