Article ID: CBB001553411

Global Histories of Health, Disease, and Medicine from a “Zig-zag” Perspective (2015)

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Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita (Author)


Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Volume: 89.4
Issue: 4
Pages: 700-704


Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: Part of a Series: A Global Perspective: Reframing the History of Health, Medicine, and Disease
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Efthymia Nikita
Leslie Steven Leighton
Heather Wipfli
Dorner, Zachary
Pollock, Alexander Chapman
Marmodoro, Anna
Concepts
Medicine
Health
Disease and diseases
Globalization; internationalization
Public health
Historiography
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
Ancient
17th century
Places
United States
Latin America
Great Britain
San Francisco (California)
Guatemala
Washington (state, U.S.)
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2003 May 21)
United Nations
Royal Society of London
Royal College of Surgeons, London
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