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Johan P. Mackenbach, A History of Population Health: Rise

WEBA History of Population Health sets out to ascertain the “deeper causes” of improvements to population health in Europe since the 18th century. The causes under consideration …

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“The Most Unhealthy Spots in the World”: Thinking, Dwelling In, …

WEBIt is a historical topos to describe 18th-century medicine as driven by a “topocentric approach.” 10 From this perspective, the key theory linking health and the environment …

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Paleosyndemics: A Bioarchaeological and Biosocial Approach

WEBMerrill Singer developed the term and idea of “syndemics” in an effort to rethink public health and to emphasize that the health of a community encompasses their physical …

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Food, nutrition and public health in contemporary Spain, 1900- 1936

WEBWithin the context of the health reforms introduced in Spain in the early 20th century and the influence of international health organisations on their development, this article …

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Chikungunya in Brazil, an Endless Epidemic Centaurus

WEBFor 6 years, I conducted ethnographic research examining public health policy for dengue in Brazil and Argentina. 4 The research consisted of observing public policy managers …

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“The Last Time that We Can Say the Plague Raged”: Historicizing

WEBIn the 17th century, English plague-tract writers began replicating a practice begun some decades earlier by their French and Italian counterparts: creating local histories to better …

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Environmentalism after the Pandemic

WEBIt is now thought that COVID-19 may become endemic to human populations, or if not, we may see a rise in other global pandemics (Murdoch, 2020). If so, we will …

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The Porous City: Dealing with Public Health Crises in Fifteenth …

WEBThe Porous City: Dealing with Public Health Crises in Fifteenth-Century Sint-Truiden

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“The Most Unhealthy Spots in the World”: Thinking, Dwelling …

WEBCrowded and poorly-ventilated premises as well as tropical regions were perceived as “the most unhealthy spots in the world.”. However, the progressive “medicalisation” of …

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Biosocial Approach to Study Infectious Diseases in the Past

WEBThe bioarchaeological record presents an especially important perspective on timing of some of the world's most catastrophic diseases, such as leprosy, tuberculosis, plague …

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and the History of American Epidemiology Mythological …

WEBFollowing his involvement in controlling the mosquito vector in yellow fever in the South, a project which at that time gave some cause for optimism, he tackled a new disease, …

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“Animal Bodies, Human Health, and the Reform of …

WEB“Animal Bodies, Human Health, and the Reform of Slaughterhouses in Nineteenth-Century Berlin”.

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“The Salvation of the Seamen”: Ventilation, Naval Hygiene, and …

WEBAbstract From the 1660s onwards, France tried to establish itself as a leading maritime and colonial power. The first French East India Company allowed a decisive penetration into …

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Mythological Endings: John Snow (1813–1858) and the

WEBDuring the COVID-19 epidemic, the name of the 19th-century English physician John Snow (1813-1858) has cropped up to a surprising extent, notably in connection with the severe …

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WEBThe Porous City: Dealing with Public Health Crises in Fifteenth-Century Sint-Truiden, p. 99

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Ending Epidemics in Mao's China: Politics, Medical

WEBWhile establishing top-down medical and epidemic-prevention systems after 1949, the new government committed to launching continuous campaigns, which I categorize as …

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The Sacred Art: Medicine in the Carolingian Renaissance Viator

WEBThis article argues that beginning around the turn of the ninth century Carolingian intellectuals engaged in a sustained effort to confirm medicine’s status as a sacred art. It …

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The ‘Great Sanitary Awakening’ Questioned: Is There a Solid …

WEBThe large archaeological dataset of more than 650 excavated water facilities and cesspits dating from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century in the Dutch town of Haarlem allows …

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The Transmission of Medical Knowledge in Script and Print

WEBThe fifteenth century remains a lacuna in the history of Western medicine, poised between a manuscript Middle Ages and a Renaissance age of print. Compared with the period …

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