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Coasting to catastrophe
In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.
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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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London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: viewed from the south. Coloured engraving.
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London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: viewed from the north. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1848.
Date: 1848Reference: 38504i- Videos
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Fever.
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Hospitals in England and Wales: buildings, equipment and staff. Photographs, 194-.
Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]Reference: 663840i- Books
The seasonal prevalence of enteric fever : (abstract) / by Louis Parkes ... Lecturer on Public Health at St. George's Hospital, Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea.
Parkes, Louis.Date: 1892