Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita (Author)
Mark Harrison's essay explores the relevance of global perspectives in writing histories of health, disease, and medicine (HDM). Harrison's wide-ranging scholarship on colonial power, medicine, disease, and commerce makes him well poised to inquire into the place and potential of global histories of HDM.1 His broad premise is that “global” historical perspectives offer opportunities to map interconnected networks of health and disease that are not constrained by the boundaries of the nation-state and its geopolitics and can yield an interpretative synthesis that could illuminate “the central problems of our field” (p. 687). Even as he concedes that the “global” in histories of HDM is often elusive to define, his own characterization and understanding of a global approach or “scale” is mostly as a long-distance history of networks of “peoples and places” beginning chronologically with European colonialism, conquest, networks of trade and military engagements, and the related mobility of pathogens and disease.
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