This title examines the forms and conventions of colonial epidemiology in order to re-imagine New England's early literary history as a function of the narrative, legal, and theological responses to regional and generational patterns of illness in the 17th and early 18th centuri…
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This title examines the forms and conventions of colonial epidemiology in order to re-imagine New England's early literary history as a function of the narrative, legal, and theological responses to regional and generational patterns of illness in the 17th and early 18th centuri…
"In the summer of 1629, John Winthrop described a series of epidemics that devastated Native American populations along the eastern seaboard of New England as a "miraculous plague." Winthrop was struck by the providential nature of these waves of disease, which contributed neatl…
Looks at the circumstances surrounding the typhoid fever epidemic that struck Ithaca, New York, and Cornell University in 1903.
Looks at the circumstances surrounding the typhoid fever epidemic that struck Ithaca, New York, and Cornell University in 1903.
In this case study done by the first anthropologists ever invited by the World Health Organization to join a medical intervention team and assist in efforts to control an Ebola outbreak, readers will embark on an improbable journey through the heart of Africa to discover how ind…
