Journal article
Revisiting "What Is an Epidemic?" in the Time of COVID-19: Lessons from the History of Latin American Public Health
Bulletin of the history of medicine, Vol.94(4), pp.627-636
2020
DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2020.0086
PMID: 33775943
Abstract
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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Revisiting "What Is an Epidemic?" in the Time of COVID-19: Lessons from the History of Latin American Public Health
- Creators
- Mariola Espinosa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Bulletin of the history of medicine, Vol.94(4), pp.627-636
- DOI
- 10.1353/bhm.2020.0086
- PMID
- 33775943
- NLM abbreviation
- Bull Hist Med
- ISSN
- 0007-5140
- eISSN
- 1086-3176
- Publisher
- United States
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2020
- Academic Unit
- History; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984077372202771
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