Medical / Public Health

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Sanitizing Moscow

Sanitizing Moscow

Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia
Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia
Ecologies of Disease Control

Ecologies of Disease Control

Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective
Ecologies of Disease Control explores the relationship between ecological conceptions of epidemics and forms of infectious disease control. Bringing historical, sociological, anthropological, and geographical case studies from the late eighteenth century to the present into dialogue, contributors unearth a multiplicity of spatial configurations in governing epidemics, putting contemporary health security ...
Conjuring the State

Conjuring the State

Public Health Encounters in Highland Ecuador, 1908-1945
Winner, 2024 Best Book Prize, LASA Ecuadorian Studies Section The Ecuadorian Public Health Service was founded in 1908 in response to the arrival of bubonic plague to the country. A. Kim Clark uses this as a point of departure to explore questions of social history and public health by tracing how the ...
China and the Cholera Pandemic

China and the Cholera Pandemic

Restructuring Society under Mao
Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward campaign organized millions of Chinese peasants into communes in a misguided attempt to rapidly collectivize agriculture with disastrous effects. Catastrophic famine lingered as the global cholera pandemic of the early 1960s spread rampantly through the infected waters of southeastern coastal China. Confronted with a ...

Total 4 results found.