The end of an epidemic, like #covid19, is difficult to pinpoint, because of the myriad actors involved in and affected by an epidemic operate on diverging and increasingly un-synchronised time scales. #histmed#histsci#histSTM
https://t.co/2gT9QpAg2E
Arthur Rose argues that many of the historiographical complications ensuing between the different ideas of the “ending” of epidemics may be resolved by assessing whether they bring “closure” or not. #histmed#histsci#histSTM
https://t.co/VWIxczvn9J
Roderick Bailey explores the divergence between Anglo-American and Italian narratives about the ending of louse-borne typhus in Naples in 1943. #histmed#histsci#histSTM
https://t.co/wCT2VXrE2H
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the name of John Snow was everywhere. This #openaccess article shows how different versions of Snow's persona came to represent basic and often conflicting conceptions of epidemiology. #histmed#histsci#histSTM
https://t.co/5HhRezwNpt
@pkelton explores how the history of epidemics and colonial history intersect in the unnoticed ending of smallpox among Indigenous Peoples in the USA. #histmed#histsci#histSTM
https://t.co/l2YJjoZJQV
To answer how epidemics like #covid19 end, one must ask (1) how particular waves of epidemics end, and (2) how the disease become eradicated. These are separate questions. #histmed#histsci#histSTM
https://t.co/5w22NJubWk
This #openaccess article suggests that historians' engagement with new biological and medical anthropological research will allow new understandings of epidemics and their endings. #histmed#histsci#histSTM
https://t.co/HMbWWMk0cu
See authors Clark Spencer Larsen and Fabian Crespo @OSUanthro@CACHeUofL of https://t.co/ZyY9id6zmK in discussion with @EricaCharters: https://t.co/SLyUMB29O4
Pathogens continue to circulate, even after the end of an epidemic, like #covid19. Thus, there is no “end,” just evolution of opportunistic pathogens and our ability (or not) to mitigate them. #histmed#histsci#histSTM@OSUanthro@CACHeUofL
https://t.co/ZyY9icOXYa
This article discusses a paradox in the history of tuberculosis: its eradication has been seen as imminent ever since it was defined as a condition with a necessary bacterial cause in 1882, but, to date, has failed to arrive. #histmed#histsci#histSTM
https://t.co/mDA8txAWKZ
This #openaccess article addresses some infectious diseases that never really “ended,” even though their morbidity, their social impact, and their public visibility have faded away: AIDS, syphilis, and measles. #histmed#histsci#histSTM
https://t.co/00UeGeVXbm
This #openaccess article examines HIV/AIDS in the '80s and '90s and swine flu in 2009 in the UK as comparative “tracer epidemics” to understand the multiplicity of endings from the perspective of contemporary history of policy. #histmed#histsci#histSTM
https://t.co/F1mIscFXAF
Jean Segata examines how chikungunya virus disease is epidemiologically and politically invisible in Brazil, unlike other diseases related to the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, such as Zika, dengue, and yellow fever. #histmed#histsci#histSTM
https://t.co/6bMcYMUf1e