Associate Professor, College of Charleston
Historian of pandemics and public health. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Editor of The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
Jacob Steere-Williams is a historian of epidemic disease, particularly in 19th and early-20th century Britain and the former British colonies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and began teaching at the college in 2011. He is the author of the 2020 book The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England, published by the University of Rochester Press in the Studies In Medical History series.
Britain’s ‘broken’ water system: a history of death, denial and diarrhoea
Aug 01, 2024 22:34 pm UTC| Insights & Views
In the spring of 2024, residents of the south Devon harbour town of Brixham kept falling ill. Their symptoms including awful stomach complaints, bad diarrhoea and severe headaches went on for weeks. A retired GP who...