Introduction: microbes, networks, knowledge—disease ecology and emerging infectious diseases in time of COVID-19

Abstract This is an introduction to the topical collection Microbes, Networks, Knowledge: Disease Ecology in the twentieth Century, based on a workshop held at Queen Mary, University London on July 6–7 2016. More than twenty years ago, historian of science and medicine Andrew Mendelsohn asked, “Where did the modern, ecological understanding of epidemic disease come from?” Moving beyond Mendelsohn’s answer, this collection of new essays considers the global history of disease ecology in the past century and shows how epidemics and pandemics have made “microbes complex”..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

Enthalten in:

History and philosophy of the life sciences - 42(2020), 3 vom: 23. Juni

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Honigsbaum, Mark [VerfasserIn]
Méthot, Pierre-Olivier [VerfasserIn]

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30.01$jGeschichte der Naturwissenschaften

42.60$jZoologie: Allgemeines

Themen:

1918–1919 influenza pandemic
Bacteriology
Ecology of knowledge
Emerging and re-emerging infections
Epidemics
Networks
Parasitology
Population ecology
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
Tropical medicine
Virulence

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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

doi:

10.1007/s40656-020-00318-x

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OLC2118103743