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.
Catalogue
- Books
Epidemics and revolutions : cholera in nineteenth-century Europe / Richard J. Evans.
Evans, Richard J.- Books
Epidemics and skeletal populations / Margaret Cox.
Cox, Margaret.Date: 1993- Books
Progress of epidemics : epidemics of England.
Date: 1855- Books
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Epidemics and the built environment in 1665 / Justin Champion.
Champion, Justin (Justin A. I.)Date: 1993- Books
Disease, dragons and saints : the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages / Peregrine Horden.
Horden, Peregrine.
