Open Access publication out in History of Human Sciences!

'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest

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This morning I taught on the history of AIDS and its 'birth certificate' in the 1981 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. This week the #MMWR has not been published for the first time since 1952.

Unhinged executive order vandalism with terrifying implications for trust in epidemiological info.

Quite the debate. You could either go for the veterinary story, which David Robertson has pursued a bit (doi.org/10.2105/AJPH...), but have a good look at @wombatscholar.bsky.social paper, anchoring this in the early 20th century moral panic about crowds: doi.org/10.2105/AJPH..., especially in:

This fantastic collection of bibliographic essays is not just a narrative guide to scholarship about past epidemics but a collective reckoning with the limitations of #histmed #histsci in the face of a pandemic.

All #openaccess and highly recommended.

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