Article ID: CBB254020371

History of Pandemics in Latin America (2023)

unapi

José Ragas (Author)


Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 114
Issue: S1
Pages: S498-S532


Publication Date: 2023
Edition Details: IsisCB Special Issue: Bibliographic Essays on the History of Pandemics
Language: English

This essay revisits the scholarly production around three major pandemics in the region: (a) the Third Plague Pandemic; (b) HIV/AIDS in the 1980s; and (c) COVID-19. The essay aims to provide a comprehensive set of resources (both printed and digital) in four languages (Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French) to examine how scholars have approached these phenomena and how their scope and interpretations have changed over time. Historians of health paid particular attention to sociocultural aspects of the disease, which enabled them to consider usually-neglected actors, such as patients of Indigenous and African descent with their own medical traditions. This added more complexity to our understanding of how these pandemics were fought and received. In addition, the essay suggests that COVID-19 prompted the emergence of historians of health as public scholars. They actively used social networks and other digital tools not only to communicate about the long history of diseases and pandemics in the region, but also to provide an authorized or informed perspective amid misinformation and fake news. In addition, the internet was crucial to the development of helpful databases and virtual conferences beyond academic campuses and paywalls.

...More
Included in

Article Weldon, Stephen P.; Sankaran, Neeraja (2023) Scholarship in the Time of COVID-19: An Introduction to the IsisCB Special Issue on Pandemics. Isis Bibliography of the History of Science (pp. 1-5). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB254020371/

Similar Citations

Article Mark Honigsbaum; (2023)
The “Spanish” Flu and the Pandemic Imaginary (/isis/citation/CBB294752241/)

Article Heiner Fangerau; Ulrich Koppitz; Alfons Labisch; (2023)
A Survey of Historical Works on Pandemics in the German Language (/isis/citation/CBB639618125/)

Article Lukas Engelmann; (2023)
Coinfection, Comorbidity, and Syndemics: On the Edges of Epidemic Historiography (/isis/citation/CBB555120181/)

Article Maria Conforti; (2023)
History of Epidemics: A Bibliographical Essay on Secondary Sources in Italian and on Italy (/isis/citation/CBB899693707/)

Article James Stark; (2023)
Making Microbes: Theorizing the Invisible in Historical Scholarship (/isis/citation/CBB108538466/)

Article Robert Peckham; Mei Li; (2023)
Epidemic Histories in East Asia (/isis/citation/CBB101515388/)

Article Michael F. McGovern; Keith A. Wailoo; (2023)
Epidemic Inequities: Social and Racial Inequality in the History of Pandemics (/isis/citation/CBB217740446/)

Article Matheus Alves Duarte Da Silva; Jules Alexander Skotnes Brown; (2023)
Emerging Infectious Diseases and Disease Emergence: Critical, Ontological and Epistemological Approaches (/isis/citation/CBB898539128/)

Article Dora Vargha; Imogen Wilkins; (2023)
Vaccination and Pandemics (/isis/citation/CBB227322509/)

Article Weldon, Stephen P.; Sankaran, Neeraja; (2023)
Scholarship in the Time of COVID-19: An Introduction to the IsisCB Special Issue on Pandemics (/isis/citation/CBB256293342/)

Article Anne-Emanuelle Birn; (2020)
How to Have Narrative-Flipping History in a Pandemic: Views of/from Latin America (/isis/citation/CBB573683614/)

Article Walmir Thomazi Cardoso; Roberto de Andrade Martins; (2018)
Iberian Approaches to Astronomy During the Sixteenth Century (/isis/citation/CBB129034551/)

Book Shawn C. Smallman; (2007)
The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America (/isis/citation/CBB151839654/)

Book Keiji Yamamoto; Charles Burnett; (2019)
The Great Introduction to Astrology by Abū Maʿšar (/isis/citation/CBB747482464/)

Book Daniele Danesi; Ilenia Maschietto; (2020)
Catalogo del Fondo Cesare Grassetti della Fondazione Giorgio Cini (/isis/citation/CBB230395168/)

Article Helen M. Cohn; (2022)
Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 42, 2020/21 (/isis/citation/CBB763297491/)

Article Jarvis, Charles E.; (2021)
An annotated bibliography of the printed works of James Petiver (c.1663–1718) (/isis/citation/CBB183122342/)

Authors & Contributors
Andriamialisoa, Fanja
Ilaria Scaglia
Keiji Yamamoto
Imogen Wilkins
Jules Alexander Skotnes-Brown
Smallman, Shawn C.
Concepts
Reference works for historians of science
Bibliographies
Pandemics
Public health
Epidemics
English language
Time Periods
Medieval
21st century
16th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Latin America
East Asia
Spain
Italy
Australia
Venice (Italy)
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment