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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 hell of hay fever
After years suffering in silence, David Jesudason finds speaking out about his pollen allergy gives him hope for a future where his hay-fever symptoms are under control.
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea; and the Rotunda at Ranelagh: viewed from the Surrey bank with boats on the river. Coloured engraving.
Maurer, John, 1696?-1761.Date: 1744Reference: 20604i- Books
The seasonal prevalence of enteric fever : (abstract) / by Louis Parkes ... Lecturer on Public Health at St. George's Hospital, Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea.
Parkes, Louis.Date: 1892- Books
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Report submitted to His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, upon the subject of the out pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, that have been under treatment for diseases of the eyes : also, the reports made by the medical officers of Chelsea Hospital upon the cases of those patients.
Great Britain. Army Medical Board.Date: 1819- Pictures
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: looking from the Surrey side of the river in stormy weather. Coloured engraving, 1815, by W. Woolnoth after J.P. Neale after W.G. Moss.
Moss, W. G., active 1777-1827.Date: 13 January 1815Reference: 20336i- Books
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A sketch of the life and character of the late Dr. Monsey, physician to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea : with anecdotes of persons of the first rank in church and state.
Date: 1789