Stories
- In pictures
Dark Matter responds to ‘Epidemic threats and racist legacies’
Animated-collage artist Dark Matter brings his unique combination of live footage and archive imagery to respond to a text suggesting that the field of epidemiology emerged in the 19th century imbued with the doctrine of Western imperialism.
- Article
Lonely bodies are hungry for more than turkey
At Christmas, many charities provide dinners for homeless or isolated people. Food is central to festive celebrations, but it can also satisfy our hunger for belonging and community.
- In pictures
The hermit life from medieval to modern
Can hermits get lonely? Explore solitary lives through the ages, from early religious ascetics to children imprisoned in churches, and on to those compelled to withdraw from modern life in the 21st century.
- Article
Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
Catalogue
- Videos
Invisible enemies. Part 3, Epidemics - products of progress.
Date: 1992- Books
Epidemics laid low : a history of what happened in rich countries / Patrice Bourdelais ; translated by Bart K. Holland.
Bourdelais, Patrice.Date: 2006- Books
The pictorial record of epidemics / William Schupbach.
Schupbach, William.Date: 1993- Videos
Children of the iron lung.
Date: 2000- Books
Galen : commentary on Hippocrates' epidemics book VI, parts I-VIII : edition of the Arabic version and English translation / by Uwe Vagelpohl.
GalenDate: 2022