Article ID: CBB555120181

Coinfection, Comorbidity, and Syndemics: On the Edges of Epidemic Historiography (2023)

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Engelmann, Lukas (Author)


Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 114
Issue: S1
Pages: S71-S84


Publication Date: 2023
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.

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Authors & Contributors
Cerchiai Manodori Sagredo, Claudia
Elisa Tinelli
Alibrandi, Rosamaria
Imogen Wilkins
Jules Alexander Skotnes-Brown
Brigo, Francesco
Concepts
Pandemics
Epidemics
Public health
Bibliographies
Disease and diseases
Reference works for historians of science
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
Medieval
Ancient
20th century
Places
Italy
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Bogotá (Colombia)
Sicily
East Asia
Latin America
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