A5065309780- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Health and Conflict Studies
- History of Science and Medicine
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Travel-related health issues
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Military History and Strategy
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- History of Medicine and Tropical Health
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
- Philosophy and History of Science
- Historical and Scientific Studies
- Medical History and Research
- Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies
- Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies
- History of Medicine Studies
- Poxvirus research and outbreaks
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Historical and modern epidemiology studies
University of Oxford
2011-2024
Institute of Global Environment and Society
2024
SOAS University of London
2021
University of London
2021
Universidad de Londres
2021
Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de Sciences Po
2021
As COVID-19 drags on and new vaccines promise widespread immunity, the world's attention has turned to predicting how present pandemic will end. How do societies know when an epidemic is over normal life can resume? What criteria markers indicate such end? Who insight, authority, credibility decipher these signs? Detailed research past epidemics demonstrated that they not end suddenly; indeed, only rarely diseases in question actually This article examines ways which scholars have identified...
ABSTRACT The expansion of British imperial warfare during the middle eighteenth century provided motivation and opportunity for observations on native forces. nature military medicine, with its use regimental returns empirical about mortality rates large groups anonymous individuals, encouraged generalizations differences between European bodies. As foreign, colonial environments accentuated deaths due to disease war-time, as early modern medicine advised acclimatized, labour, physical...
This spotlight issue encourages reflection on the current COVID-19 pandemic, not simply through comparisons with previous epidemics, but also by illustrating that epidemics deserve study within their broader cultural, political, scientific, and geographic contexts. Epidemics are solely a function of pathogens; they how society is structured, political power wielded in name public health, quantitative data collected, diseases categorised modelled, histories disease narrated. Each these...
ABSTRACT This article re-examines the concept of fiscal-military state in context British armed forces during Seven Years War (1756–63). war, characteristic warfare eighteenth century, demonstrates that victory depended on caring about wellbeing its troops, as well being perceived to care. At practical level, disease among troops led manpower shortages and hence likely defeat, especially sieges colonial campaigns. During 1762–3 Portuguese campaign, was regarded a sign ill-discipline,...
During the siege at Quebec, 1759—60, which followed battle on Plains of Abraham, high rates disease contributed to British defeat by French forces in April 1760. While historians have not previously discussed military medical preventative measures, a detailed examination demonstrates sophisticated attempts adapt foreign environment and its disease, as well how development American provincial antagonism perceptions difference.
The Seven Years' War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as scurvy, smallpox, yellow fever killed far more than combat did, stretching resources of European states. Disease, Imperial State, Erica Charters demonstrates how disease played a vital role in shaping strategy campaigning, British state policy, imperial relations during War. Military medicine was crucial component war effort; it central to both...
This collection of essays on British military and naval medicine during the formative period imperial state provides a valuable overview recent work, covering key themes. These include development professionalisation, standardisation organisation administration, tropical medicine. As editor, Geoffrey Hudson, explains at outset, volume demonstrates that Roger Cooter's call for more work relationship between war modern has been answered (p. 7). Hudson's introduction helpful historiographical...
"The Myth of the Press Gang: Volunteers, impressment and naval manpower problem in late eighteenth century." The Mariner's Mirror, 101(4), pp. 476–477
"Marriage & the British Army in Long Eighteenth Century: ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me’." Cultural and Social History, 13(2), pp. 276–277
This article examines 18th-century European warfare, tracing the first formal codifications of conventions war, frequently introduced by military physicians and initially regarding treatment thesick wounded.It outlines to what extent these were followed in practice, particularly challenging environment American irregular with a focus on most well-known incident “biological warfare” period: deliberate spread smallpox British officers among Amerindians 1763. More broadly, it demonstrates that...
What does it mean for an epidemic to end, and who gets declare that is over? This multidisciplinary spotlight issue provides 18 case studies, each examining specific epidemics their ends as well the methodologies used measure, gauge, define epidemic's end. They demonstrate end often contentious, raising issues of competing authority. Various forms expertise jostle over declares what data information should be measure epidemic. As a result, more accurate describe multiple endings epidemic:...
Paul Kelton’s Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation’s Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824 is in many ways a sequel to his excellent Enslavement and Epidemics: Biological Catastrophe the Native Southeast, 1492–1715 (2007). In Epidemics, Kelton outlined weaknesses flaws Alfred Crosby’s “virgin soil” thesis through detailed analysis of European encounters with peoples Southeast during sixteenth seventeenth centuries; Germs, takes readers eighteenth early nineteenth centuries...