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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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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
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London Board of Health searching the city for cholera during the 1832 epidemic. Lithograph, 1832.
Date: 1832Reference: 1998i- Books
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Observations on cholera : made during a visit to Sunderland, undertaken by direction of the Birmingham Town Infirmary Board of Health, in the months of November and December, 1831 / by George Parsons.
Parsons, George.Date: 1832- Books
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A letter to the London Board of Health, offering a new, concise, and intelligible view of the leading phenomena of the present pestilential cholera : by which a rational, simple, and successful mode of treatment is attained / by Thomas Brown.
Brown, Thomas.Date: 1832- Books
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Report on the chemical pathology of the malignant cholera : containing analyses of the blood, dejections, &c. of patients labouring under that disease in Newcastle and London, &c. &c. &c. / by W.B. O'Shaughnessy.
O'Shaughnessy, William Brooke, 1809-1889.Date: 1832- Books
The dwellings of the labouring classes / by T. Orme Dudfield.
Dudfield, Thomas Orme, 1832?-1908.Date: 1890