Journal
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
Volume 295, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114454
Keywords
History; Syndemics; Epidemics; Interdisciplinarity; Plague
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Historians should approach medicine and disease with a syndemic perspective to enhance our understanding of disease history and current syndemics.
Historians of medicine and disease have yet to think through a syndemic lens. This commentary aims to point out why they should. Although there are several hurdles to overcome, our histories of disease and our understanding of current syndemics both stand to gain should historians begin to explore episodes of cooccurring diseases that share root causes.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available