240117 SE VM5 / VM1 - International History and Politics of Epidemics (2020W)

Examples of readings discussed in the seminar (list susceptible to modification)

− Erez Manela, ‘A Pox on Your Narrative: Writing Disease Control into Cold War History’, Diplomatic History 34, no. 2 (2010): 299–323.
− David S. Jones, ‘History in a Crisis — Lessons for Covid-19’, New England Journal of Medicine, March 2020.
− David Simmons, ‘Religion and Medicine at the Crossroads: A Re-Examination of the Southern Rhodesian Influenza Epidemic of 1918’, Journal of Southern African Studies 35, no. 1 (2009): 29–44.
− Helen Tilley, Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950. Chicago: UP, 2011. (Excerpt)
− Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Armando Solórzano, ‘Public Health Policy Paradoxes: Science and Politics in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Hookworm Campaign in Mexico in the 1920s’, Social Science & Medicine 49, no. 9 (1999): 1197–1213.
− Samuel K. Cohn, ‘Pandemics: Waves of Disease, Waves of Hate from the Plague of Athens to A.I.D.S.’, Historical Research 85, no. 230 (2012): 535–55.
− Anne-Emanuelle Birn, “Skirting the issue: women and international health in historical perspective,” American Journal of Public Health 89, no. 3 (1999), 399–407.
− Jonathan Bell, ‘Rethinking the “Straight State”: Welfare Politics, Health Care, and Public Policy in the Shadow of AIDS’, Journal of American History 104, no. 4 (2018): 931–52.
− Mark Schuller and Julie K. Maldonado, ‘Disaster Capitalism’, Annals of Anthropological Practice 40, no. 1 (2016): 61–72.
− Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception (Chicago: UP, 2005). (Excerpt)
− Peter Baldwin, Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (Berkeley: Univ.of California Press, 2006).
− Richard Coker and Alan Ingram, ‘Passports and Pestilence: Migration, Security and Contemporary Border Control of Infectious Diseases’ in Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present, ed. Alison Bashford (N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 159–76 & 196–218.
− Valeska Huber, ‘The Unification of the Globe by Disease? The International Sanitary Conferences on Cholera, 1851-1894’, The Historical Journal 49, no. 2 (2006): 453–76.
− Marta A. Balinska, ‘Assistance and not mere Relief: The Epidemic Commission of the League of Nations’, in International Health Organisations and Movements, 1918-1939, ed. Paul Weindling (Cambridge: UP, 1995), 81-108.
− Lorna Weir et al., ‘The World Health Organization and the Transition from “International” to “Global” Health’, in Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present, ed. Alison Bashford (N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 76–94.
− Sunil Amrith, ‘In Search of a “Magic Bullet” for Tuberculosis: South India and Beyond, 1955-1965’, Social History of Medicine 17, no. 1 (2004): 113–30.
− Marcos Cueto, ‘Appropriation and Resistance: Local Responses to Malaria Eradication in Mexico, 1955-1970’, Journal of Latin American Studies 37, no. 3 (2005): 533-559.
− Monica Rull, Ilona Kickbusch, and Helen Lauer, ‘Policy Debate | International Responses to Global Epidemics: Ebola and Beyond’, International Development Policy 6, no. 2 (2015).
− Heidi J. S. Tworek, ‘Communicable Disease: Information, Health, and Globalization in the Interwar Period’, The American Historical Review 124, no. 3 (2019): 813–42.
− Davide Rodogno and Thomas David, ‘All the World Loves a Picture. The World Health Organization’s Visual Politics, 1948–1973’, in Humanitarian Photography: A History, ed. Heide Fehrenbach and Davide Rodogno (Cambridge: UP, 2015), 223–38.
− John M. Kirk, ‘Cuban Medical Internationalism and Its Role in Cuban Foreign Policy’, Diplomacy & Statecraft 20, no. 2 (5 August 2009): 275–90.
− Paul Weindling, Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890–1945 (Oxford: UP, 2000) (Excerpt)