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About the exhibition | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
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“The people had done it themselves” | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
Exhibition chapter
Epidemics and ecology | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
Exhibition chapter
Trade-offs | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
Multimedia | journal article
Sweet Blood: An Environmental History of Diabetes and Chronic Disease in America
This essay looks at the phenomenon of diabetes in the United States from the viewpoint of environmental history.
Arcadia
Science in the Time of the Plague: Jakob Gråberg and the Moroccan Plague Epidemic of 1818–20
This article explores Swedish consular secretary Jakob Gråberg’s writings on the plague in Morocco in 1819.
Arcadia
The Remarkable Ray of Dublin’s Ringsend
On the common stingray and its longstanding place in the diet, health, and lives of people in Ringsend, Ireland.
Multimedia | film profile
EHL VideoDictionary: Evolutionary History
Edmund Russell on evolutionary history. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Mosquitopia: The Place of Pests in a Healthy World
Full book co-edited by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Marcus Hall.
Multimedia | journal article
“Medicalising Electricity in the Dutch Republic, 1745–1789”
This article sheds light on the processes and tactics used by eighteenth-century electricians in making medical electricity a legitimate remedy in the Dutch Republic.