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How Epidemics End
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Margaret Pelling and the History of Cholera in England

Dr Margaret Pelling (Oxford) and Dr Erica Charters discuss how historians understand disease and the myths about the end of cholera in nineteenth-century England.
How Epidemics End
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Simukai Chigudu and the Political Life of Epidemics

Dr Simukai Chigudu (Oxford) and Dr Erica Charters discuss the Zimbabwe cholera epidemic and the politics of epidemics.
How Epidemics End
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Lorenz Von Seidlein and Epidemiology

Dr Lorenz Von Seidlen (Oxford) and Dr Erica Charters discuss epidemiological research into cholera and global programmes for cholera elimination.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Book at Lunchtime: The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe

TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe written by Professor Simukai Chigudu.
Futuremakers
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Coronavirus and ‘Disease X’

Professor Peter Millican interviews the Oxford scientists working at the forefront of research into Disease X
Futuremakers
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Ebola

Professor Peter Millican begins the final episode of this series in 2014, at the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Futuremakers
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HIV/AIDS

In the ninth episode of our History of Pandemics season, Professor Peter Millican leaves the perils of influenza behind, only to discover an entirely new virus: HIV.
Futuremakers
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The 'Spanish' Flu

Professor Peter Millican arrives in the twentieth century, during the last years of the Great War, to a pandemic which you may have read a lot about during the early coverage of our current COVID outbreak.
Futuremakers
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'Russian' Flu: the pandemic that wasn't?

In this episode, Professor Peter Millican discusses a controversial outbreak...
Futuremakers
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Cholera

Professor Peter Millican makes it to the nineteenth century to discuss the achievements of John Snow
Futuremakers
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Smallpox, and Jenner

Welcome to the eighteenth century, at a point when Europe is going through another major smallpox outbreak, a disease that by this point has been plaguing populations around the globe for centuries.
Futuremakers
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The Great Plague

in the final plague episode of the series, Professor Peter Millican talks to his guests about the last major outbreak of this horrific disease in seventeenth-century England.
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The Black Death

Professor Peter Millican arrives in the fourteenth century and meets history's most notorious plague outbreak.
Futuremakers
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The Plague of Justinian

Welcome to the Eastern Roman Empire in the sixth century. This time, Professor Peter Millican discusses a plague that historians and medical experts agree was likely the first plague pandemic humanity experienced.
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Athens: the first plague?

Join Professor Peter Millican in 5th century Athens, a crowded city in the midst of a siege, where a devastating disease had just erupted.
St Antony's looks at the World

St Antony's Looks At the World - Ep 1: Professor Simukai Chigudu

Professor Simukai Chigudu, Associate Professor of African Politics, joins us to discuss his book The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe and the lessons for today.
Africa Oxford Initiative

The political life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship

Simukai Chigudu launches his book, 'The political life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship'. He explains the cholera epidemic, the response to it in Zimbabwe and from the world and life after the epidemic, remembering the epidemic
Uehiro Oxford Institute

The Salvation Agenda: The Politics of Medical Humanitarianism During Zimbabwe's Cholera Outbreak 2008/09

In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Simukai Chigudu examines the humanitarian politics of responding to the most catastrophic cholera outbreak in African history.

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