Stories
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The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
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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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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.
Catalogue
- Books
The filth disease : typhoid fever and the practices of epidemiology in Victorian England / Jacob Steere-Williams.
Steere-Williams, JacobDate: 2020- Books
Typhoid fever and chronic typhoid carriers / D.S. Davies.
Davies, D. S.Date: 1908- Books
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Report on certain associated cases of enteric fever following Stirling County Ball, on 1st October, 1895 / by A. K. Chalmers ; with a bacteriological report by R. M. Buchanan.
Chalmers, Archibald Kerr.Date: [1895]- Books
On the cause of enteric fever in India / by H. Skey Muir.
Muir, H. Skey.Date: 1991- Books
The history of typhoid fever in Munich / by Christopher Childs ..., Lecturer on bacteriology in relation to hygiene, University College, London.
Childs, Christopher.Date: 1898