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 stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
- In pictures
We are the survivors of slow-motion epidemics
Pioneering epidemiologist Dr Alice Stewart realised how things in our daily lives could be as deadly as any infectious disease.
- In pictures
Dark Matter responds to ‘Epidemic threats and racist legacies’
Animated-collage artist Dark Matter brings his unique combination of live footage and archive imagery to respond to a text suggesting that the field of epidemiology emerged in the 19th century imbued with the doctrine of Western imperialism.
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Epidemic cholera and epidemic diarrhoea : can these diseases be prevented? : practical suggestions for diminishing the severity of, and mortality from, these epidemics / by William Camps.
Camps, William.Date: 1866- Books
Epidemic catarrhal jaundice : some notes on the epidemiology of the disease and an account of an epidemic in the Midlands / by M.T. Morgan and H.C. Brown.
Morgan, Montagu Travers.Date: 1927- Books
Epidemic disease in formal and popular thought in early Islamic society / Lawrence I. Conrad.
Conrad, Lawrence I., 1949-- Books
Epidemic encephalitis : etiology, epidemiology, treatment / second report by the Matheson Commission.
Matheson Commission for the Study of Epidemic Encephalitis.Date: 1932- Books
Epidemic diseases / A.H. Gale.
Gale, Arthur Harold, 1901-1956.Date: 1959