The Epidemy

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A history of death, denial and diarrhoea. Why Britain's water systems keep failing, why its an epidemiological history and what we could do to make it better. @steerewilliams and myself in @ConversationUK theconversation.com/britains-broke…

History should not be rewritten. Arguments against Pandemic Revisionism by @engelmal81 and @DoraVargha just out in the @ConversationUK 👇👇 COVID: there’s a strong current of pandemic revisionism in the mainstream media, and it’s dangerous theconversation.com/covid-theres-a…

👋Final reminder to send your exciting proposals to our epidemy panel at #EASST4S2024 in Amsterdam. We invite proposals to ask how research 𝗱𝗼𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 brings epidemics into focus. Do data maketh an epidemic? Submit here until February 12: 👇👇 #14234" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">easst4s2024.net/open-panels/#1…

Timeline 👉1 September 2023: open call for contributions 👉15 September 2023: feedback on proposal 👉31 January 2024: chapter drafts due 👉1 March 2024 : feedback on chapters due 👉1 May 2024: final chapters due 👉June 2024: submission to publisher +++ Please share and RT +++

Abstracts 100-200 words, including short bio note (50 words), per email to epidemy@ed.ac.uk Format Length: 5k - 8k words Emphasis on bibliography & historiography for chosen topic, incorporating personal expertise, individual research perspective and selected case studies.

+++Call for Contributions+++ 👉The Palgrave Handbook for the History of Epidemiology 👉 Inviting short abstracts to join us building a new, important #OpenAccess resource for teaching and researching the History of (Modern) Epidemiology 👉epidemy.sps.ed.ac.uk/wp-content/upl… #epitwitter

The final paper of the panel, the day, and the workshop comes from Axel Hüntelmann, drawing out the historical roots of the cancer registry in West Germany; an infrastructure that connects infectious disease to chronic conditions. #DataandDisease Thanks for listening!

We turn to the history of Zika in Brazil. Jonatan Sacramento @HueyDeweyLouie0 introduces a little biography of surveillance devices as scientific objects. He asks, what is the use of recording epidemiological anomalies if no service is in place to care for them. #DataandDisease

Day 2 of our Data and Disease workshop is under way. Follow this thread for a brief overview of the papers presented. Full programme here, report and further workshops to follow in due course: epidemy.sps.ed.ac.uk/programme-of-d… #DataandDisease

@xrkulik Thanks for your fantastic presentation, Rachel!