Pandemic Histories
Resources for Research, Practice, and Teaching
Resource List
October 27, 2020 | American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19 | John Fabian Witt | Yale University Press
August 19, 2020 | Plague and Protest Go Hand in Hand | Emma K. Atwood and Sarah Williamson | JSTOR Daily
August 3, 2020 | The Mask Slackers of 1918 | Christine Hauser | The New York Times
July 27, 2020 | The history of science and medicine in the context of COVID ‐19 | Erica Charters & Richard A. McKay | Centaurus
July 27, 2020 |Emerging diseases, re‐emerging histories | Monica H. Green | Centaurus
July 27, 2020 | COVID-19, history, and humility | David S. Jones | Centaurus
July 27, 2020 | Rethinking the history of plague in the time of COVID ‐19 | Nükhet Varlık | Centaurus
July 27, 2020 | How to have narrative‐flipping history in a pandemic: Views of/from Latin America | Anne-Emanuelle Birn | Centaurus
July 27, 2020 | Layers of epidemy: Present pasts during the first weeks of COVID‐19 in western Kenya | P. Wenzel Geissler & Ruth J. Prince | Centaurus
July 27, 2020 | Chinese state and society in epidemic governance: A historical perspective | Angela Ki Che Leung | Centaurus
July 13, 2020 | How Pandemics Wreak Havoc—and Open Minds | Lawrence Wright | The New Yorker
June 18, 2020 | "Condemned to Repeat It”: The U.S. Response to COVID-19 | Constance A. Nathanson | ASA Footnoes
June 17, 2020 | How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases | Ferris Jabr | The New York Times
June 10, 2020 | What 1966 Can Teach Us About the Future of Primary Care: The Case for Communities of Solution | The Milbank Quarterly
May 14, 2020 | From Black Death to fatal flu, past pandemics show why people on the margins suffer most | Science
April 16, 2020 | 'We Haven't Learned From History': 'Radio Influenza' Is A Warning From 1918 | NPR
March 30, 2020 | What Our Contagion Fables Are Really About | Jill Lepore | The New Yorker
March 27, 2020 | Historical linkages: epidemic threat, economic risk, and xenophobia | The Lancet
March 22, 2020 | The Epidemics America Got Wrong | Jim Downs | The Atlantic
March 6, 2020 | Didactic Historicism and the Historical Consciousness of Epidemics | Christos Lynteris | Somatosphere
Selected Pre-COVID-19 Resources
2020 | The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris | Mark Honigsbaum | W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
2019 | Global health futures? Reckoning with a pandemic bond | Susan Erikson | Medicine Anthropology Theory
2020 | Avian Reservoirs Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts | Frédéric Keck | Duke University Press
2019 | Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China | Mary Augusta Brazelton | Cornell University Press
2019 | Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present | Frank M. Snowden | Yale University Press
2017 | Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency | Andrew Lakoff | University of California Press
2017 | American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic | Nancy Bristow | Oxford University Press
2016 | Ebola: How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic | Paul Richards | Zed Books
2016 | Quarantine: Local and Global Histories | Alison Bashford (Ed.) | MacMillan International
2016 | Infectious Change Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic | Katherine A. Mason | Stanford University Press
2015 | The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger | Carlo Caduff | University of California Press
2014 | Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entangelment | Alex M. Nading | University of California Press
2014 | The Viral Network: A Pathography of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic | Theresa MacPhail | Cornell University Press
2014 | Treating AIDS: Politics of Difference, Paradox of Prevention | Thurka Sangaramoorthy | Rutgers University Press
2013 | Knowledge in the Time of Cholera The Struggle Over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century | Owen Whooley | University of Chicago Press
2012 | H1N1, globalization and the epidemiology of inequality | Matthew Sparke and Dimitar Anguelov | Health & Place
2012 | Fevered Measures Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1942 | John Mckiernan-González | Duke University Press
2011 | Infectious Ideas U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis | Jennifer Brier | The University of North Carolina Press
2010 | The Burdens of Disease Epidemics and Human Response in Western History | J. N. Hays | Rutgers University Press
2009 | Epidemic Invasions Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878-1930 | Mariola Espinosa | The University of Chicago Press
2008 | Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative | Priscilla Wald | Duke University Press
2008 | Theorizing modernity conspiratorially: Science, scale, and the political economy of public discourse in explanations of a cholera epidemic | Charles L. Briggs | American Ethnologist
2007 | SARS and New York's Chinatown: The politics of risk and blame during an epidemic of fear | Laura Eichelberger | Social Science & Medicine
2006 | Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 | Natalia Molina | University of California Press
2004 | Stories in the Time of Cholera Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare | Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs | University of California Press
2003 | Why Nation-States and Journalists Can't Teach People to Be Healthy: Power and Pragmatic Miscalculation in Public Discourses on Health | Charles L. Briggs | Medical Anthropology Quarterly
2001 | Contagious Divides Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown | Nayan Shah | Uniersity of California Press
1999 | How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS | Paula A. Treichler | Duke University Press
1999 | Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues | Paul Farmer| University of California Press
1998 | Impure Science AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge | Steven Epstein | University of California Press