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SUMMARY:Recalculating equality: data\, race and environmental health model
 s in 19th-century West Africa - Matthew Eddy (Durham University)
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CONTACT:Dr. Rosanna Dent
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines the relationship between data and disease 
 in the mid-19th-century British colony of Sierra Leone through the eyes of
  the black physician James Africanus Beale Horton (1835–1883). A native 
 of Sierra Leone and a distinguished graduate of two British medical school
 s\, Horton sought to arrest the alarming ascent of racialised medical info
 rmation gathering systems that framed the delivery of public health and we
 llness for both African and European inhabitants who lived across the 3\,0
 00 miles of West African coastline controlled by Britain. Concentrating on
  the historical context that enabled Horton to use his robust knowledge of
  medicine\, environmental science and statistics to promote health equity 
 within British West Africa and within the Global South more generally\, I 
 suggest that he was especially keen to challenge the proliferation of inco
 mplete\, inaccurate or irrelevant medical information by collecting and di
 sseminating climatology and mortality 'counter data' that revealed the tru
 e causes of health and illness.
LOCATION:Hopkinson Lecture Theatre\, New Museums Site
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