Stories
- Article
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 stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
- In pictures
We are the survivors of slow-motion epidemics
Pioneering epidemiologist Dr Alice Stewart realised how things in our daily lives could be as deadly as any infectious disease.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Books
Epidemics and revolutions : cholera in nineteenth-century Europe / Richard J. Evans.
Evans, Richard J.- Books
Epidemics and Aphorisms : notes on the history of early transmission of Epidemics / Gilles Maloney.
Maloney, Gilles.Date: 1989- Books
Epidemics and skeletal populations / Margaret Cox.
Cox, Margaret.Date: 1993- Books
Epidemics in Britain / [Benjamin Ward Richardson].
Richardson, Benjamin Ward, 1828-1896Date: 1895- Books
Epidemics in colonial America / [John Duffy].
Duffy, John, 1915-1996.Date: [1953]
