Good Foods and Bad Foods: The 1862 Measles Epidemic and Diet in Edo
This article explores changing dietary practices during the 1862 measles epidemic in Edo, Japan.
This article explores changing dietary practices during the 1862 measles epidemic in Edo, Japan.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Nancy Fraser is interviewed on her recent book, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do about It .
Underground mining on South Africa’s Rand transformed the air.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, demand for backyard chickens soared. This article traces how, since settlement, Australians have turned to backyard chooks in times of crisis in pursuit of food security.
Fencing for biosecurity reasons is a contentious topic among pig farmers, environmental organizations, politicians, and borderland communities.
A disease that is now a national symbol of Peru’s medical achievements is the result of a tiny sandfly
This paper explores how conceptions of Canada as a naturally healthy environment proved false when the ill-health of civilians was revealed during the First World War.
The aim of this study is to present the theme from three different but complementary perspectives. The medical perspective lays the groundwork regarding the pathophysiology, the clinical picture, and the differential diagnosis of the condition. The historical perspective presents contemporary scientific studies on conscription and published data on goiter and cretinism as endemic manifestations of hypothyroidism (since 1900), and the archaeoanthropological perspective reports one of the first documentations of the condition in an archaeological population from Switzerland (11th–15th century AD).
The Belly of the City: What lies hidden deep within Munich? Although in many other cities the central slaughterhouses have long since been shut down, animals are still butchered in the middle of Munich even today.