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
How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
- Article
Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
- Article
Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
History and Constitution
Date: 1958 - 1995Reference: SA/IEA/A/1Part of: International Epidemiological Association- Books
Pettenkofer and epidemiology : erroneous concepts, beneficial results / Wolfgang Locher.
Locher, Wolfgang GDate: 1993- Books
The introduction of statistical methods into epidemiology : an aspect of the 'scientization' of medicine / Yoichiro Murakami.
Murakami, Yoichiro.Date: 1993- Books
Policing the food trades : epidemiology, hygiene, and public administration in Edwardian Brighton / John M. Eyler.
Eyler, John MDate: 1991- Books
Epidemiology in the mid-nineteenth century : the case of the 1845-1846 yellow fever epidemic at Boa Vista / K. David Patterson.
Patterson, K. David (Karl David), 1941-Date: 1993