Harrison, Mark (Author)
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Volume: 89.4
Issue: 4
Pages: 639-689
Edition Details: Lead Article in a Series: A Global Perspective: Reframing the History of Health, Medicine, and Disease
Language: English
The emergence of global history has been one of the more notable features of academic history over the past three decades. Although historians of disease were among the pioneers of one of its earlier incarnations---world history---the recent “global turn” has made relatively little impact on histories of health, disease, and medicine. Most continue to be framed by familiar entities such as the colony or nation-state or are confined to particular medical “traditions.” This article aims to show what can be gained from taking a broader perspective. Its purpose is not to replace other ways of seeing or to write a new “grand narrative” but to show how transnational and transimperial approaches are vital to understanding some of the key issues with which historians of health, disease, and medicine are concerned. Moving on from an analysis of earlier periods of integration, the article offers some reflections on our own era of globalization and on the emerging field of global health.
...MoreArticle Bashford, Alison (2015) Bioscapes: Gendering the Global History of Medicine. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 690-695).
Article McNeill, John R. (2015) Harrison, Globalization, and the History of Health, Medicine, and Disease. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 696-699).
Article Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita (2015) Global Histories of Health, Disease, and Medicine from a “Zig-zag” Perspective. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 700-704).
Similar Citations
Article
Espinosa, Mariola;
(2013)
Globalizing the History of Disease, Medicine, and Public Health in Latin America
(/isis/citation/CBB001321226/)
Chapter
Domenico Roccolo;
(2023)
Confraternite e malati a Roma nell'età moderna
(/isis/citation/CBB551431790/)
Article
Siddharth Chandra;
Julia Christensen;
Shimon Likhtman;
(2020)
Connectivity and seasonality: The 1918 influenza and COVID-19 pandemics in global perspective
(/isis/citation/CBB309984269/)
Article
Kyle Harper;
(2020)
Germs, genomes, and global history in the time of COVID-19
(/isis/citation/CBB422578756/)
Book
Amy Moran-Thomas;
(2019)
Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic
(/isis/citation/CBB847846810/)
Article
Arner, Katherine;
(2013)
Making Global Commerce into International Health Diplomacy: Consuls and Disease Control in the Age of Revolutions
(/isis/citation/CBB001201444/)
Book
Alison Bashford;
(2007)
Medicine At The Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present
(/isis/citation/CBB494977228/)
Book
Fischer-Tiné, Harald;
(2013)
Pidgin-Knowledge: Wissen und Kolonialismus
(/isis/citation/CBB001551249/)
Article
Arnold, David J.;
(2012)
The Medicalization of Poverty in Colonial India
(/isis/citation/CBB001213112/)
Article
Lukas Engelmann;
(2023)
Coinfection, Comorbidity, and Syndemics: On the Edges of Epidemic Historiography
(/isis/citation/CBB555120181/)
Essay Review
Nükhet Varlık;
(2017)
Beyond Eurocentric Histories of Plague
(/isis/citation/CBB548596998/)
Article
Aldo De Togni;
(2023)
The Last Century of Malaria in Ferrara: From the Unification to the Boom Years
(/isis/citation/CBB249578681/)
Thesis
Nair, Aparna;
(2010)
Between Asclepius and Mammon: Disease, Death, Medicine and Public Health In Madras, 1786-1815
(/isis/citation/CBB323949784/)
Book
Bob H. Reinhardt;
(2015)
The End of a Global Pox: America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era
(/isis/citation/CBB147233173/)
Book
Kenneth Maes;
(2016)
The Lives of Community Health Workers: Local Labor and Global Health in Urban Ethiopia
(/isis/citation/CBB528353819/)
Article
Valentina Gazzaniga;
Silvia Marinozzi;
(2017)
De Carbone, Sive Carbuncolo. Il Carbonchio nella Pubblicistica Italiana dalla Restaurazione all'Unità
(/isis/citation/CBB317291966/)
Book
Baker, R.;
(2007)
Epidemic: The Past, Present and Future of the Diseases That Made Us
(/isis/citation/CBB000952024/)
Article
Roberto Mazzola;
(2020)
Napoli 1764
(/isis/citation/CBB070432836/)
Article
Junaidi;
Budi Agustono;
Heristina Dewi;
Mhd. Pujiono;
Kiki Maulana Affandi;
(2023)
Nias Island: looking at the life and health of the Ono Niha in the 19th Century
(/isis/citation/CBB216928383/)
Book
David Sowell;
(2015)
Medicine on the Periphery: Public Health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1960
(/isis/citation/CBB234226159/)
Be the first to comment!