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.
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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.
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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
- Books
Epidemiology and the statistical movement / Victor L. Hilts.
Hilts, Victor LDate: 1980- Books
Epidemiology / Lise Wilkinson.
Wilkinson, Lise, Lady.Date: 1994- Archives and manuscripts
"Epidemiology"
Date: 1990sReference: SA/SCS/D/3/1Part of: Sickle Cell Society- Books
The history of American epidemiology / by C.E.A. Winslow[and others] ; edited by Franklin H. Top. Sponsored by the Epidemiology Section, American Public Health Association.
Winslow, C.-E. A. (Charles-Edward Amory), 1877-1957.Date: 1952- Archives and manuscripts
International Journal of Epidemiology
Date: 1958-2006Reference: SA/IEA/F/1Part of: International Epidemiological Association