Stories
- Comic
Legacies
We're always leaving bodily legacies. Where was the last place you left a bodily legacy?
- 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.
- Article
Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
- 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
- Archives and manuscripts
"Legacies to NAFC"
Date: c.1970s-1980sReference: PP/PCB/A/3/4Part of: Patrick Clavell Blount- Archives and manuscripts
'Legacies - General'
Date: Dec 1948-Aug 1965Reference: SA/CRC/L.3Part of: Cancer Research Campaign, formerly British Empire Cancer Campaign- Archives and manuscripts
Legacies and gifts
Date: 1890-1970Reference: SA/QNI/G.2Part of: Queen's Nursing Institute- Books
Legacies in ethics and medicine / Chester R. Burns, editor.
Date: 1977- Books
Legacies in law and medicine / Chester R. Burns, editor.
Date: 1977