I'm not sure it's actually about pandemics as such, but getting away from that heroic narrative of the elite guy in the elite institution, Anne Hardy's The Epidemic Streets: infectious Diseases and the Rise of Preventive Medicine 1856-1900 is about on-the-ground public health initiatives. I haven't read S.J. Watts, Epidemics and History: Disease, Power, and Imperialism but it sounds a bit less Heroic White Male just from the title.
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Date: 2020-04-15 08:45 pm (UTC)