Engelmann, Lukas (Author)
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 114
Issue: S1
Pages: S71-S84
Edition Details: IsisCB Special Issue: Bibliographic Essays on the History of Pandemics
Language: English
This bibliographic essay introduces three concepts to the historiography of epidemics and pandemics: coinfection, comorbidity, and syndemics. All three of these concepts have seen considerable popularity in the social sciences—and to some extent in epidemiology—but have not been used much in historical scholarship. The essay attributes this to the continued prevalence of disease specificity and its accompanying historical genre, the disease biography, in the history of science, medicine, and public health. Through the introduction of some of the important literature on each of the three concepts this essay seeks to raise conceptual and methodological questions on the boundaries between the social sciences and historical scholarship on epidemics and pandemics. Introducing this scholarship aims at increasing the capacity for transdisciplinary collaboration and to further integrate the reflection on epidemics of the past with the contemporary analysis of epidemics in their social, cultural, and environmental situatedness.
...MoreArticle 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).
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