Revisiting "What Is an Epidemic?" in the Time of COVID-19: Lessons from the History of Latin American Public Health.
Bull Hist Med
; 94(4): 627-636, 2020.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1156069
ABSTRACT
This essay considers what thirty years of scholarship on the history of epidemics in Latin America and the larger hemisphere can bring to a current reading of Charles Rosenberg's influential 1989 essay, "What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective." It advocates that taking a broader geographical view is valuable to understanding better the arc of an epidemic in society. In addition, it proposes that, to see the ways in which the United States is experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to place the United States alongside the experiences of other countries of the Americas rather than making comparisons to Europe.
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Main subject:
Public Policy
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Socioeconomic Factors
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Epidemics
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
Bull Hist Med
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
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