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Futuremakers
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Cholera

Professor Peter Millican makes it to the nineteenth century to discuss the achievements of John Snow
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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.
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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.
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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.
The Secrets of Mathematics
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How do mathematicians model infectious disease outbreaks?

Models. They are dominating our Lockdown lives. But what is a mathematical model? We hear a lot about the end result, but how is it put together? What are the assumptions? And how accurate can they be?
Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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Epidemics, Erdös Numbers and the Internet: the Physics of Networks

Physics Colloquium 12th February 2016 delivered by Professor Mark Newman
Anthropology

Epidemiological crises, epistemological divisions

In this seminar held by the Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions (ArgO-EMR), Assoc. Professor Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University) discusses 'the new discourse on epidemics in 17th-18th century China'. 7 March 2012.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Focal points, endogenous processes and exogenous shocks in the autism epidemic

Ka Yuet Liu (Columbia University) presents an insightful inquiry into autism epidemic.

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