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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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
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Divining the world through an artist’s almanac
Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.
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The pain that punished feminists
In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Royal College of Physicians - Legal file"
Date: 1974-1979Reference: PP/PCB/C/1/41Part of: Patrick Clavell Blount- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Research Council (MRC) - Royal College of Physicians
Date: 1985Reference: SB/1/2/645Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Archives and manuscripts
General Correspondence Files - 1
Date: 1986-1987Reference: SA/ASG/C/1Part of: AIDS and Social Policy Group- Archives and manuscripts
Article about Pappworth - "The Man Without Fellowship" by Lois Goldman, World Medicine. Correspondence with editor of World Medicine
Date: 1972Reference: PP/MHP/E.1/5Part of: Pappworth, Maurice- Archives and manuscripts
Dutov - Dyke
Date: 1949-1982Reference: PP/MLV/C/4/8Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)