Epidemics from the Perspective of Professional Nursing: Beyond Germs, Public Health, and Pot Banging (2020)
In his classic article, Charles Rosenberg brilliantly sets up epidemics as social phenomena of three interrelated stages—progressive revelation, develop ment of an explanatory framework to manage randomness, and negotiation of public response. This framework, although written almost thirty years ago, still resonates. Even as we have experienced different kinds of infectious epidemics over the last century (Ebola, AIDS), his stages still help us understand how society constructs the meaning of epidemics and manages policies, structures, and postepidemic explanations. Whether Rosenberg's three stages actually help frame the meaning of an epidemic for individual patients and professional care providers, for whom the epidemic is local and personal, is the subject of this essay, with an emphasis on the following question: What is the meaning of an epidemic from a nursing perspective?
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