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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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.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
Catalogue
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Yellow fever : from colonial Philadelphia and Baltimore to the mid twentieth century / Theodore E. Woodward.
Woodward, Theodore E. (Theodore Englar), 1914-2005Date: 1980- Books
Studies on the natural history of yellow fever in Trinidad / edited by Elisha S. Tikasingh.
Date: 1991- Books
Yellow fever in the North : the methods of early epidemiology / William Coleman.
Coleman, William, 1934-1988.Date: 1987- Books
Yellow fever / Brian R. Shmaefsky ; consulting editor, Hilary Babcock ; foreword by David L. Heymann.
Shmaefsky, Brian.Date: 2010- Books
Epidemiology in the mid-nineteenth century : the case of the 1845-1846 yellow fever epidemic at Boa Vista / K. David Patterson.
Patterson, K. David (Karl David), 1941-Date: 1993