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Germs Revisited

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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On Thursday 16 March 2017, Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown gave a talk with Dr Jamie Lorimer (School of Geography and the Environment) and Dr Nicola Fawcett (Medical Sciences Division) on the subject of Germs Revisited.
The talk discusses bad germs, friendly bacteria and whether we need to rethink our relationships with the microscopic world! The talk draws on past and present ideas from medicine, fiction and art to discuss new ways of thinking about human-microbe relationships along with developing trends in microbiome studies.

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
People
Emilie Taylor-Brown
Jamie Lorimer
Nicola Fawcett
Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Karen O'Brien
Keywords
germs
Medicine
history
social history
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 25/04/2017
Duration: 00:46:22

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