Exploring Society with COVID-19
Exploring Society with COVID-19
By Dora Vargha “We know a good deal about beginnings: those first signal cases of pneumonia in Guangdong, influenza in Veracruz, and hemorrhagic fever in Guinea, respectively marking the origins of the SARS outbreak of 2002–4, the H1N1 influenza pandemic of 2008–9, and the Ebola pandemic of 2014–16. Recent history tells us a lot about […]
By Neville Morley The first detailed, quasi-scientific account of epidemic disease was offered by the Ancient Greek historian Thucydides, describing an outbreak of ‘plague’ (the identity of the disease is unknown) in Athens in 430 BCE. Thucydides’ description influenced many subsequent accounts; it is most interesting for his exploration of social and psychological responses to […]
By Fabrizio Nevola and collaborators PUblic REnaissance: Urban Cultures of Public Space between Early Modern Europe and the Present is a project funded by the Humanities in European Research area, involving colleagues from universities in Italy, Germany the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. Over the course of three years our collaborative project will examine the urban […]
By Angela Cassidy There are many parallels between the UK’s response to the arrival of COVID-19 in recent months and its much longer policy history of grappling with bovine tuberculosis. In particular, both situations expose a critical problem underlying many controversies drawing in science, policy and wider publics—the idea of “The Big Book of Science.” […]
By Angela Cassidy As humanity meets, identifies and struggles to understand the SARS-CoV-2 virus, scientific and societal understandings of the disease it causes (COVID-19) are rapidly changing. Scientific research, clinical treatments, policy/politics, and wider social representations of this completely new disease are already being framed in terms of several diseases we already know, including viral […]
By Martin Moore Historians are as much a product of their particular time and place as the subjects we study. Our interpretations of the past are inescapably shaped by our biographical, social and cultural relations, as well as by our material circumstances. Given the way in which the pandemic has remade the way we are […]
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