Stories
- Article
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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On contagion
Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Typhus
Date: 1943-1946Reference: WA/PRL/HP/Sub/2/3Part of: Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories- Archives and manuscripts
Typhus Vaccine
Date: 1945Reference: WA/PRL/HP/Sub/2/4Part of: Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories- Archives and manuscripts
Typhus - Dr Felix's study
Date: 1945Reference: PP/JRH/B/96Part of: Hutchinson, James Randal (c. 1880-1955) and Bradley, William Henry (1898-1975)- Archives and manuscripts
Typhus Control Board: minutes and memoranda
Date: 1943-1944Reference: GC/200/B/3/1Part of: Chalke, Dr Herbert Davies (1897-1979)- Archives and manuscripts
'Typhus'
Date: 1942-1948Reference: PP/EKC/A/2/11Part of: Cruickshank, Eric Kennedy (1914-2007)