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Tuberculosis: A Cultural History

Tuberculosis (and especially drug resistant strains) is a major global...

The concluding lecture takes the example of HIV/AIDS and discusses...

Breast cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases for...

AIDS is an example of a highly stigmatising ailment. This...

Polio has a major role in the cultural history of...

The third lecture in the series deals with tuberculosis, of all...

Known to many as “the father of immunology”, Edward Jenner...

‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth century...

Typhus, the subject of the fifth lecture in the series, was...

Our health and susceptibility to disease are not wholly written...