Stories
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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.
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On contagion
Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.
Catalogue
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Recent researches into the epidemiology of Malta fever / by Colonel David Bruce ... Royal Army Medical Corps; chairman, Mediterranean Fever Commission of the Royal Society.
Bruce, David, Sir, 1855-1931.Date: 1907- Books
The epidemiology of rheumatic fever / John R. Paul ; prepared with the assistance of an ad hoc Advisory Committee of the Council on Rheumatic Fever and Congenital Heart Disease of the American Heart Association.
Paul, John R. (John Rodman), 1893-1971.Date: 1957- Books
Recent researches into the epidemiology of Malta fever / by David Bruce.
Bruce, David, Sir, 1855-1931.Date: 1907]- Books
Yellow fever : from colonial Philadelphia and Baltimore to the mid twentieth century / Theodore E. Woodward.
Woodward, Theodore E. (Theodore Englar), 1914-2005Date: 1980- Books
Studies on the natural history of yellow fever in Trinidad / edited by Elisha S. Tikasingh.
Date: 1991