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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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Generation portraits

Photographer Julian Germain’s major project focusing on portraits of multi-generational families came to a sudden halt during the various Covid-19 lockdowns. Here families celebrate coming together again in words and images.

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  • The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the Hunterian Museum. Coloured engraving by E. Radclyffe after T. H. Shepherd.
  • Royal College of Surgeons of England: Charles Stewart, conservator of the museum, describing specimens to visitors on the college's centenary. Drawing by Duncan, 1900.
  • A descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the calculi and other animal concretions contained in the Museum / [By T. Taylor].
  • In Paris, at the theatre of M. Comte, in 1819, a female dwarf was exhibited ... : Though the surgeons removed to Lincoln's Inn Fields at the commencement of this century ... Hunter's Museum, formerly in Leicester Square, was purchased from his widow by the government for 15,000£ ...
  • The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the museum. Engraving by E. Radclyffe after T. H. Shepherd.
  • The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the museum. Wood engraving after T. R. MacQuoid, 1854.
  • A lecture at the Hunterian anatomy school, Great Windmill Street, London. Watercolour by R.B. Schnebbelie, 1839.
  • A lecture at the Hunterian anatomy school, Great Windmill Street, London. Watercolour by R.B. Schnebbelie, 1839.
  • A lecture at the Hunterian anatomy school, Great Windmill Street, London. Watercolour by R.B. Schnebbelie, 1839.
  • Royal College of Surgeons, architectural drawing.
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