Article ID: CBB161822106

Pandemics and the politics of difference: rewriting the history of internationalism through nineteenth-century cholera (2020)

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This article revisits the origins of internationalism in the field of health and shows how the cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century, much like the current coronavirus crisis, brought global differences such as social inequalities, political hierarchies, and scientific conflicts to the fore. Beyond drawing parallels between the cholera epidemics and the current crisis, the article argues for combining imperial and social histories in order to write richer and more grounded histories of internationalism. It explores this historiographical and methodological challenge by analysing the boardrooms of the international sanitary conferences, Middle Eastern quarantine stations catering for Mecca pilgrims, and ocean steamships aiming to move without delay during a worldwide health crisis.

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Authors & Contributors
Johnston, William D.
Tina Travagliante
Pouget, Benoît
Rasmus R. Simonsen
Geoff Bender
Fischer-Tiné, Harald
Concepts
Medicine and society
Cholera
Global history
Imperialism
Public health
Epidemics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Medieval
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Japan
United States
Europe
Africa
South Korea
Michigan (U.S.)
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