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
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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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.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Epidemiology"
Date: 1990sReference: SA/SCS/D/3/1Part of: Sickle Cell Society- Journals
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Epidemiology
Date: ©1990-- Books
Epidemiology and the statistical movement / Victor L. Hilts.
Hilts, Victor LDate: 1980- Books
Epidemiology / V. Zhdanov.
Zhdanov, V. M. (Viktor Mikhaĭlovich)Date: [1962?]- Books
Epidemiology / Leon Gordis.
Gordis, Leon, 1934-2015.Date: [2004], ©2004