Article ID: CBB636758077

Revisiting "What Is an Epidemic?" in the Time of COVID-19: Lessons from the History of Latin American Public Health (2020)

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This essay considers what thirty years of scholarship on the history of epidemics in Latin America and the larger hemisphere can bring to a current reading of Charles Rosenberg's influential 1989 essay, "What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective." It advocates that taking a broader geographical view is valuable to understanding better the arc of an epidemic in society. In addition, it proposes that, to see the ways in which the United States is experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to place the United States alongside the experiences of other countries of the Americas rather than making comparisons to Europe.

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Authors & Contributors
Schafer, James A., Jr.
Fernando Rosa
Packard, Randall M.
Aliete Cunha-Oliveira
Fearnley, Lyle
Smallman, Shawn C.
Concepts
Public health
Epidemics
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
AIDS (disease); HIV / AIDS
Pandemics
Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV)
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
China
Democratic Republic of the Congo
South Asia
Hong Kong
Portugal
New Zealand
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