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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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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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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Report on an outbreak of typhoid fever at Omaha, Nebr. - (1909-1910) / by L.L. Lumsden. The water supply of Williamson, W. Va., and its relation to an epidemic of typhoid fever / by W.H. Frost.
Lumsden, L. L. (Leslie Leon), 1875-1946Date: [1910]
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An inaugural essay on the bilious typhus which prevailed in Bancker-Street and its vicinity : in the city of New York, in the summer and autumn of 1820 / by Richard Pennell.
Pennell, Richard, -1861.Date: 1821
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On the affections clinically simulating typhoid fever : with especial reference to and reports of cases of Brill's disease / by H. Fred Lange Ziegel.
Ziegel, Hermann Fred Lange, 1876-Date: 1910
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Practical observations on the treatment, pathology, and prevention of typhous fever / By Edward Percival.
Percival, Edward, 1783?-1819.Date: 1819- Books
Mass vaccination : global aspects - progress and obstacles / S.A. Plotkin (ed.).
Date: 2006