Fissell, Mary Elizabeth (Author)
Greene, Jeremy Alan (Author)
Packard, Randall M. (Author)
Schafer, James A., Jr. (Author)
Over the past year, historians of medicine have found our discipline invested with a new sense of relevance. In trying to make sense of epidemics past and present, many of us have been substantially influenced by Charles Rosenberg's 1989 Daedalus essay, "What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective." Writing in the middle of another unfolding global pandemic, Rosenberg suggested that all epidemics possessed similar forms of social choreography, and that applying a narrative framework could help to understand their sequence, structure, and social impact. This issue of the Bulletin offers contributions from thirteen scholars working in various geographic, chronological, and thematic areas that engage with Rosenberg's fundamental historical question about what defines an epidemic, although the question takes on different forms, and different forms of urgency, in each of their works.
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David S. Jones;
(2020)
COVID-19, History, and Humility
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John Fabian Witt;
(2020)
American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
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Brian Dolan;
(2020)
It Wasn't Supposed to Be a Coronavirus: The Quest for an Influenza A(h5n1)-Derived Vaccine and the Limits of Pandemic Preparedness
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Frédéric Keck;
(2020)
Asian Tigers and the Chinese Dragon: Competition and Collaboration Between Sentinels of Pandemics from Sars to COVID-19
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Anne-Emanuelle Birn;
(2020)
Perspectivizing pandemics: (How) do epidemic histories criss-cross contexts?
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Fernando Rosa;
Alessandra Parodi;
(2024)
Essere in una pandemia. Filosofia, medicina e Covid-19
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John P. DiMoia;
(2020)
Contact Tracing and COVID-19: The South Korean Context for Public Health Enforcement
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Stefano Santasilia;
(2020)
Pandemia e stili di vita: pazienza
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Giuseppe Armocida;
(2020)
Di nuovo una storia vecchia. L’emergenza Coronavirus
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Mariola Espinosa;
(2020)
Revisiting "What Is an Epidemic?" in the Time of COVID-19: Lessons from the History of Latin American Public Health
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Wayne Soon;
(2020)
From SARS to COVID-19: Rethinking Global Health Lessons from Taiwan
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Davide Orsini;
James A. Ostenson;
Francesco Brigo;
Mariano Martini;
(2023)
Pandemics and Mental Disorders: From the Thought of the 19th Century Psychiatrist Andrea Verga to long-term effects of COVID-19
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Angela Ki Che Leung;
(2020)
Chinese State and Society in Epidemic Governance: A Historical Perspective
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Paul Richards;
(2020)
Ebola and COVID-19 in Sierra Leone: comparative lessons of epidemics for society
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Michael P. Kelly;
Federica Russo;
(2021)
The epistemic values at the basis of epidemiology and public health
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Florence Bretelle‐Establet;
(2020)
Science, Demons, and Gods in the Battle Against the COVID-19 Epidemic
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Lyle Fearnley;
(September 2020)
Viral Sovereignty or Sequence Etiquette? Asian Science, Open Data, and Knowledge Control in Global Virus Surveillance
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Kazanjian, Powel;
(2014)
The AIDS Pandemic in Historic Perspective
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Katherine Mason;
(2016)
Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic
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Jacques Pépin;
(2021)
The Origins of AIDS
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