As always, natural disasters are really human-disasters, exacerbating preexisting inequalities that people don’t want to talk about. With Covid, and for that matter with other communicable disea
Well, this is certainly an interesting argument from the historian of medicine Melanie Kiechle. Does the pandemic mean that we need to take 19th century theories of medicine seriously again? Revisitin
Once again, a long, long, long history of racism in science, technology, and medicine has real-life implications in dealing with the COVID pandemic. The tribes have had horrifying levels of COVID deat
If you read the comments at LGM or anywhere else on the liberal internet, it’s all doom and gloom, with commenters one upping each other in assuming the very worst news about the virus. But the
The Spanish were able to conquer the Mexica (Aztecs) due to the smallpox wiping out Tenochtitlan between 1519-21. But in the writings that survived the Spanish conquest, there were guides to the emper
I am not a historian of medicine. But as an environmental historian, I’m familiar enough with this cousin of my field to know the stories they tell well enough. And this interview with various h
If there’s one voice we need to hear from on COVID-19, it is that of Mike Davis, the great writer about disasters and inequality. His take is bracing. A year from now we may look back in admirat
Among the many cascading effects of coronavirus is going to be in the criminal injustice system: As the number of people diagnosed with the coronavirus starts to creep up in states around the country,