Stories
- Article
The hell of hay fever
After years suffering in silence, David Jesudason finds speaking out about his pollen allergy gives him hope for a future where his hay-fever symptoms are under control.
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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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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.
- Book extract
“Above resistant pavements, I floated”
In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
London Fever Hospital
Date: 1911Reference: PP/AWD/A/3/1Part of: Daley, Sir (William) Allen (1887-1969)- Pictures
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London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: viewed from the south. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 38501i- Pictures
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London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: viewed from the north. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1848.
Date: 1848Reference: 38504i- Journals
Report of the London Fever Hospital.
London Fever Hospital.Date: 1802-- Books
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Memorandum respecting the London Fever Hospital.
London Fever Hospital.Date: [1860]