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Translation and Medical Humanities

Conference Highlights

A short film highlighting the two day Translation and Medical Humanities Conference 2023
Translation and Medical Humanities

I shiver a little, I shudder a little:” Gist Translation and Uncanny Bodily Knowledges

A moving scholarly exploration and poetic performance.
Translation and Medical Humanities

Translating Symbolism into Precision Medicine

A fascinating exploration of the likenesses between cellular and verbal communication, and their impact on the insurgence of disease.
Translation and Medical Humanities

Health Rhymes with Death

Nicola Gardini challenges the idea that health is the opposite of disease.
Evidence-Based Health Care

Heart Failure in Primary Care: Lessons from Big Data

Dr Clare J Taylor, Academic GP, explores how we can use large, anonymised GP datasets to improve our understanding of heart failure management in primary care.
How Epidemics End
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Nils Chr. Stenseth And Barbara Bramanti On Evolutionary And Ecological Ends Of Epidemics

A discussion on how evolutionary biology and biological anthropology help understand the end of epidemics, particularly plague.
How Epidemics End
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Clark Larsen and Fabian Crespo on Biology, Archaeology, and Multi-disciplinary Ends

A discussion on why multi-disciplinary approaches that combine social and biological research are helpful in understanding how epidemics end.
How Epidemics End
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Cristiana Bastos and the Human End of Epidemics

Professor Cristiana Bastos (Lisbon) and Professor Erica Charters discuss how anthropology and ethnology measure the end of epidemics, including HIV/AIDS, and the difference between illness and disease.
Department of Statistics

Modelling infectious diseases: what can branching processes tell us?

Professor Samir Bhatt gives a talk on the mathematics underpinning infectious disease models.
How Epidemics End
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Carolyn Eastman on Yellow Fever in New York

Dr Carolyn Eastman (VCU) and Dr Erica Charters discuss how epidemics of yellow fever ended in 1790s New York, and the multiple ends of an epidemic for different parts of a society.
How Epidemics End
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Paul Kelton and Smallpox among American Indigenous Populations

Professor Paul Kelton (Stony Brook) and Dr Erica Charters discuss the role of smallpox in American indigenous history and culture and how smallpox finally ended.
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

The Great Health Dilemma: Is Prevention Better than Cure?

Join Professor Chris Dye, author of The Great Health Dilemma, and Professor Salim Abdool Karim, Director of CAPRISA, as they discuss ways to invest more money and effort in health promotion and prevention around the world today.
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
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
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

How mapping frames obesity and chronic disease risk factors

Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, Oxford) interviews Professor Danny Dorling (School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford) for the UBVO Instruments and Institutions Interviews series, November 2019

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