Article ID: CBB494986366

Introduction: Reimagining Epidemics (2020)

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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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Authors & Contributors
Fernando Rosa
Witt, John Fabian
Fearnley, Lyle
Brigo, Francesco
Martini, Mariano
Orsini, Davide
Concepts
Public health
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Epidemics
Medicine and society
Infectious diseases
Pandemics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Places
China
Taiwan
Sierra Leone
South Korea
Hong Kong
Singapore
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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