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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. |
Peter Millican, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti |
01 Dec 2020 |
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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. |
Peter Millican, Paul Slack, Emma Smith, Kees Windland |
01 Dec 2020 |
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The Black Death |
Professor Peter Millican arrives in the fourteenth century and meets history's most notorious plague outbreak. |
Peter Millican, Samuel Cohn, Blanche Oguti |
01 Dec 2020 |
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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. |
Peter Millican, Michael McCormick, Abigail Buglass |
01 Dec 2020 |
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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. |
Peter Millican, Tim Rood, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti |
01 Dec 2020 |
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Live Event: Invalids on the Move |
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Sally Shuttleworth, Erica Charters, Philip Bullock |
15 Sep 2020 |
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Is my bacon sandwich really going to kill me? |
Statistician Dr Jennifer Rogers discusses the numbers linked to processed meat and bowel cancer. |
Jennifer Rogers |
25 Oct 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
Cleaning up misfolded proteins |
Misfolded proteins can either create the loss of a cellular function, or escape degradation, causing aggregation diseases. |
John Christianson |
04 Feb 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
Emerging Diseases and the Prospect of the Next Pandemic |
Mr David Quammen discusses emerging diseases at the Rhodes Trust Scholarship 110th anniversary event. |
David Quammen |
16 Oct 2013 |
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The Jenner Institute |
Meet the Jenner Institute. |
NDM Strategic |
19 Jul 2012 |
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Emerging infectious diseases |
Emerging infectious diseases are often in the news but are there really more of them? Here we explore how infections invade human populations, how new pathogens adapt to become efficient infections of humans and how to predict what might happen next. |
Angela McLean |
26 Sep 2011 |
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Andrew Pollard on Childhood Disease |
Professor Andrew Pollard, Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity, and Director of the Oxford Vaccine Centre, discusses childhood diseases, his research into vaccinations, and the problems facing childhood immunisation in the UK and abroad. |
Andrew Pollard, Oliver Lewis |
10 Sep 2008 |