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    Richard J. Oosterhoff, José Ramón Marcaida, & Alexander Marr (Eds.), Ingenuity in the Making: Matter and Technique in Early Modern Europe, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. [REVIEW]Benedicto Acosta - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (4):967-970.
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    Pandemic Histories: Making Meaning or Embedding Bromides?Anne-Emanuelle Birn - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (4):953-960.
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    Negotiating Theology and Medicine in the Catholic Reformation The Early Debate on Thomas Fienus's Embryologyin the Spanish Netherlands (1620–1629). [REVIEW]Steven Vanden Broecke - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (4):859-888.
    Especially after the 1610s, Tridentine Catholicism forcefully reasserted itself as a prominent political and intellectual force in the Spanish Netherlands. Integrating this reality into accounts of Spanish-Netherlandish science in the 17th century has been a considerable challenge for historians of science. The latter either turned their gazes elsewhere or assumed a fundamental incompatibility between “science” and “religion,” thus securing one dominant explanation for the classic thesis that the Spanish Netherlands largely “lost the plot” of the so-called Scientific Revolution after the (...)
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    The Age of Molecular Biology. [REVIEW]Daniele Cozzoli - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (4):947-952.
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    Wolfgang Lefèvre, Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature—1450–1750, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022. [REVIEW]Sebastian Felten - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (4):963-966.
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    Elizabeth Reis, Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex(2nd ed.), Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2021. [REVIEW]Sam Fernández-Garrido - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (4):975-978.
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    The Sisyphean Fate of History of Science Unmoved Scientists, Unresponsive Bureaucrats, Unimpressed Politicians.Kostas Gavroglu - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (4):809-828.
    A number of issues related to the challenges menacing the future of history of science are discussed. It has become increasingly more difficult to engage scientists in the ways historians of science deal with their subjects, while at the same time the implicit historiography of science textbooks has created an ideology among scientists that makes such engagement even more strenuous. An additional complication is the deep belief of many scientists in anachronism. Another threatening prospect is the instrumentalist view held by (...)
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    What was 'Newtonianism' in Enlightenment Europe?Andrew Janiak - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (4):941-946.
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    An Appraisal of the Current Status of Research on Byzantine Sciences.Gianna Katsiampoura - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (4):919-924.
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    A Passport for the Metre The Diplomatic Recognition of the Metric System in a Changing International Order (1785–1799).Emma Prevignano - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (4):889-916.
    In 1798, the National Institute and the French minister of foreign relations invited European countries to send delegations of science practitioners to Paris to finalise the values of the metre and the kilogram. This article reads the event as part of a wider attempt to establish the political relevance of international scientific consensus and include scientific exchanges in the diplomatic culture of post-revolutionary Europe. At the end of the 18th century, the scope and methods of both the sciences and diplomacy (...)
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    Orientations and Disorientations in the History of Science How Measures Made a Difference at the Imperial Meridian.Simon Schaffer - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (4):829-856.
    Historians of the sciences have paid great attention to the ways that faith in what has been called the quantitative spirit emerged as a dominant feature of the politics of science, a theme of obvious salience in current epidemiological and climate crises. There are instructive connexions between measurement practices and orientation towards other cultures—as though scientific modernity somehow appeared through the primacy of robust quantification over subaltern, past, and exotic worlds, where merely provisional judgment allegedly still operated. This highly simplistic (...)
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    Elizabeth A. Williams, Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020. [REVIEW]Emma Spary - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (4):971-974.
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    Jochen Büttner, Swinging and Rolling: Unveiling Galileo's Unorthodox Path from a Challenging Problem to a New Science, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2019. [REVIEW]Maarten Van Dyck - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (4):925-940.
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    Mediterranean Dolphins from Miami: Knowledge and Practices in Barcelona Zoo's Aquarama.Miquel Carandell Baruzzi - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):751-772.
    In May 1965, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship in Spain, four bottlenose dolphins travelled from Miami to Barcelona Zoo. These became the inhabitants of one of the first dolphinariums in Europe. The arrival of the dolphins was preceded by two trips of the zoo's director, accompanied by an architect and a politician, to visit the installations at the Miami Seaquarium, Sea World San Diego, and Marineland of the Pacific in California. In this paper, I reflect on how knowledge and (...)
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    Agustí Camós Cabeceran, La Huella de Lamarck en España en el Siglo XIX, Madrid.Pietro Corsi - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):789-792.
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    A Tale of Two Anteaters: Madrid 1776 and London 1853.Helen Cowie - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):591-614.
    In 1776, the first living giant anteater to reach Europe arrived in Madrid from Buenos Aires. It survived 6 months in the Real Sitio del Buen Retiro before being transferred to the newly founded Real Gabinete de Historia Natural. In 1853, 77 years later, a second anteater was brought to London by two German showmen and exhibited at a shop in Bloomsbury, where it was visited by the novelist Charles Dickens. The animal was subsequently purchased by the Zoological Society of (...)
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    Anna Kathryn Kendrick, Humanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth- Century Spain. Oxford.Juan Carlos González-Faraco - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):797-800.
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    How to Get into the Pouch: Solving the Riddle of the Kangaroo Birth.Oliver Hochadel - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):635-658.
    How does the newborn kangaroo get into the pouch after birth? This question was much discussed by naturalists around the globe between 1826, when Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire first addressed the issue, and 1926, when Ellis Troughton published a “definite” account of the debate. In its first part, this paper focuses on the investigations conducted at European zoos. The advent of kangaroos made it possible to investigate the riddle through observation. In the early 1830s, Richard Owen enlisted the aid of London (...)
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    Science at the Zoo: An Introduction.Oliver Hochadel - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):561-590.
    Was the zoological garden a place for science in the 19th and 20th centuries? This question cannot be answered with a simple yes or no. Rather, this Special Issue suggests, we need to reconstruct how the concrete conditions of the zoo as an institution influenced, enabled, triggered, facilitated, obstructed, or impeded scientific research. The zoo was and is a multifunctional space serving different constituencies, such as scientists of different disciplines, artists, breeders, and the general public. This collection of articles argues (...)
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    “Here They Are in Flesh and Feather”: Walter Rothschild's “Private Zoo” and the Preparation and Taxonomic Study of Cassowaries.Eleanor Larsson - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):659-682.
    Large, black, flightless birds with unpredictable tempers and colourful heads and necks, cassowaries have enthralled European audiences for centuries, but perhaps no one more so than private collector and zoologist Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937). Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Rothschild acquired hundreds of living cassowaries which were kept in his private zoological collection. This paper explores the nature of Rothschild's private zoo and how the collection of living cassowaries was used to support his zoological activities. Spread across (...)
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    Andrew L. Jenks, Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth, New York.Cathleen S. Lewis - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):775-778.
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    Marco Storni, Maupertuis. Le philosophe, l'académicien, le polémiste, Paris.Oana Matei - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):783-788.
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    The Call of the Hoatzin: Ecology, Evolution, and Eugenics at the Bronx Zoo.Katherine McLeod - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):683-704.
    From 1908 to 1922, William Beebe, the curator of birds at the Bronx Zoo, tried unsuccessfully to bring tropical birds known as hoatzin to the zoological park in the Bronx run by the New York Zoological Society. Beebe was committed to bringing hoatzin to the zoo because he thought they could reveal scientific truths about ecology and evolution to him and the visiting public. While contemporary scholarship about zoo science in the United States has focused on how environmental conservation shaped (...)
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    Animal Feeding, Animal Experiments, and the Zoo as a Laboratory: Paris Ménagerie and London Zoo, ca. 1793–1939: The Zoo as a Laboratory. [REVIEW]Violette Pouillard - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):705-728.
    This article elaborates a local history of zoo feeding practices in order to shed light on the construction of knowledge at the zoo, its intersection with laboratory developments in life sciences, and the nature of zoo sciences. It relies on the case studies of two of the oldest zoological gardens in the world-the Jardin des Plantes Ménagerie in Paris (1793) and the London Zoological Gardens (1828)-both of which formed parts of major scientific institutions, thereby facilitating research on the dialogue between (...)
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    Harvey, Eleanor Jones, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature and Culture. Lawrenceville.Sandra Rebok - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):793-796.
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    From Existential Knowledge to Experimental Practice: The Mexican Axolotl, the Paris Ménagerie, and the Epistemic Benefits of Keeping Unknown Animals, 1850–1876.Christian Reiß - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):615-634.
    In 1864, the first living Mexican axolotls were brought from Mexico to Paris. On arrival, the 34 animals were divided up between the two zoos in Paris, the Ménagerie of the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle and the Jardin d'acclimatation. From there, the animals and their descendants spread around the world as zoo and laboratory specimens, as well as pets. Today, a population of hundreds of thousands of axolotls live in aquariums, zoos, and laboratories around the globe. The fate of the axolotls (...)
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    Andrew L. Jenks, Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth, New YorkGeppert, Alexander C. T., Limiting Outer Space: Astroculture after Apollo, LondonBrandau, Daniel, Siebeneichner, Tilmann, Militarizing Outer Space: Astroculture, Dystopia and the Cold War, London. [REVIEW]Matthew Shindell - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):779-782.
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    Undoing Extinction: The Role of Zoos in Breeding Back the Tarpan Wild Horse, 1922–1945.Marianna Szczygielska - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):729-750.
    Although episodes of captive breeding for display and acclimatization purposes date back to the 19th century, systematic breeding for species conservation first became the central mission for European zoological gardens in the interwar period. While most scholars explain this shift as a result of a decline in the global trade of exotic animals, my analysis points to the simultaneous renewed interest in native endangered and extinct species as a catalyst for captive breeding experiments. This article considers the role of zoos (...)
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  29. The Cosmos in Your Hand: A Note on Regiomontanus's Astrological Interests.Alberto Bardi - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (2):361-396.
    Johannes Müller von Königsberg (1436-1476), better known as Regiomontanus, is widely considered as the most influential astronomer and mathematician of 15th-century Europe. He was active as an astrologer and deemed astrology to be the queen of mathematical sciences. Despite this, Regiomontanus's astrological activity has yet to be fully explored. A brief examination of Regiomontanus's manuscripts shows that his astrological interests were accompanied by interests in the arts and in methods of prognostication. This article studies an unconventional astrological-chiromantical text, whose relevance (...)
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    Hoffenberg,Peter H. A Science of our own: Exhibitions and the rise of Australian public science.Joel Barnes - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (2):555-557.
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    Transforming big science in belgium: Management consultants and the reorganization of the belgian nuclear research centre (sck cen), 1980–1990.Hein Brookhuis - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (2):483-508.
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    On Tycho's Calculation of the Coordinates of Hamal, the Fundamental Star of Tycho's Catalog.Christián C. Carman - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (2):421-442.
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    Lost Green Chemistries: History of Forgotten Environmental Trajectories.Marcin Krasnodębski - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (2):509-536.
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    Hayek at the Santa Fe Institute: Origins, Models, and Organization of the Cradle of Complexity Sciences.Fabrizio Li Vigni - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (2):443-481.
    Complexity sciences are one of the most mediatized scientific fields of the last 40 years. While this domain has attracted the attention of many philosophers of science, its normative views have not yet been the object of any systematic study. This article is a contribution to the thin social science literature about complexity sciences and proposes a contribution focused on an analysis of the origins, models, and organization of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), cradle of the field. The paper defends (...)
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    Paula S. De Vos. Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain.Angélica Morales - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (2):539-541.
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    David P. D. Munns & Kärin Nickelsen. Far Beyond the Moon: A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age. Pittsburgh. [REVIEW]Michael J. Neufeld - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (2):543-545.
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    Rendering Magnetism Visible: Diagrams and Experiments Between 1300 and 1700.Christoph Sander - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (2):315-359.
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    Knowing Nature by Its Surface: Butchers, Barbers, Surgeons, Gardeners, and Physicians in Early Modern Italy.Paolo Savoia - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (2):399-420.
    This article draws attention to several different practices of observation, manipulation, and experimentation with the surface of natural things. Beginning from the observation that the surfaces of natural things invited observation, manipulation, measurement, and re-configuration, with the promise to unveil the knowledge of depths, this article explores how practical knowledge about the surface of things and bodies led to new conceptions of nature and matter as composed of layers, corpuscles, and artificially reproducible solid parts in early modern Europe. This article (...)
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    Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, Ryan Szpiech. Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures.Sara J. Schechner - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (2):547-549.
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    Rita Felski & Stephen Muecke (2020).Latour and the Humanities.Juan M. Zaragoza - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (2):551-554.
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    Johan P. Mackenbach, A History of Population Health: Rise and Fall of Disease in Europe.Dorothy Apedaile - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):289-292.
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    Centaurus: Continuing as an Open Access Journal.Theodore Arabatzis & Koen Vermeir - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):11-12.
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    Ends and Means: Typhus in Naples, 1943–1944.Roderick Bailey - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):249-260.
    In 1943, Allied forces in recently liberated Naples were confronted with an outbreak of louse-borne typhus. The established Anglo-American narrative of that epidemic is a triumphant story of effective action that controlled the disease with unprecedented speed and success, aided by the pioneering use of the pesticide DDT. Rather than retell that tale, this article discusses why the outbreak and its ending are largely absent from Italian accounts of wartime Naples. Drawing on Italian sources and contemporary Allied ones, it argues (...)
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    The Never-Ending Poxes of Syphilis, AIDS, and Measles.Cristiana Bastos - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):155-170.
    In this article, I address some infectious diseases that never really “ended,” even though their morbidity, their social impact, and their public visibility have faded away: AIDS, syphilis, and measles. I will use data from different projects I have conducted on each of those epidemics: HIV/AIDS at the doctoral training level in the 1990s, with a geographical focus on Brazil and the United States; syphilis in the context of a 2010 project on the social history of health in Lisbon in (...)
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    The Many Endings of Recent Epidemics: HIV/AIDS, Swine Flu 2009, and Policy.Virginia Berridge - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):145-154.
    Studying national and local contexts is essential for understanding the ending of epidemics and related policy responses. This article examines HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s and swine flu in 2009-2010 in the UK as comparative “tracer epidemics” to understand the multiplicity of endings from the perspective of the contemporary history of policy. Such endings can include: the political ending, changes in definition away from epidemic, the medical end, different endings for different “risk groups,” local endings, and media endings. This (...)
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    Erica Fretwell, Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race and the Aesthetics of Feeling.Jorge Castro-Tejerina - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):293-296.
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    Information, Expertise, and Authority: The Many Ends of Epidemics.Erica Charters - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):15-30.
    What does it mean for an epidemic to end, and who gets to declare that it is over? This multidisciplinary spotlight issue provides 18 case studies, each examining specific epidemics and their ends as well as the methodologies used to measure, gauge, and define an epidemic's end. They demonstrate that an epidemic's end is often contentious, raising issues of competing authority. Various forms of expertise jostle over who declares an end, as well as what data and information should be used (...)
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    Epidemics that End with a Bang.Samuel K. Cohn - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):207-216.
    To answer how epidemics end, one must ask two intersecting but separate questions: first, how particular waves of epidemics end, whether of yellow fever, cholera, plague; and second, how epidemic diseases become eradicated-either through scientific intervention, as with smallpox in the 1970s, or simply by disappearing for reasons that remain mysterious, as with the Second Plague Pandemic from ca. 1347. This article challenges two general notions on how epidemics end. First, individual waves of plagues in European municipalities or regional states (...)
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    Ending Epidemics in Mao's China: Politics, Medical Technology, and Epidemiology.Xiaoping Fang - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):99-118.
    The politics of epidemics in Chinese history not only involves competing interpretations about the meanings of disease, but also includes dynamic tensions between socio-political factors and the participants involved in emergency responses. This article examines three cases-the plague epidemic of 1949, the cholera epidemic of 1961-1965, and the meningitis epidemic of 1966-1967-to reveal the entangling political, technological, and epidemiological factors involved in ending epidemics in the People's Republic of China, while also illustrating the difficulty of charting the end of an (...)
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    This is the End: Eradicating Tuberculosis in Modern Times.Christoph Gradmann - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):171-180.
    This article discusses a paradox in the modern history of tuberculosis: its eradication has been seen as imminent ever since it was defined as a condition with a necessary bacterial cause in 1882, but, to date, has failed to arrive. The unwavering belief in an imminent end to tuberculosis mostly illustrates the degree to which modernity trusts in pharmaceutical interventions, whether in the form of Koch's tuberculin cure of 1890, the BCG vaccine of the mid-20th century, or global health control (...)
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    “The Last Time that We Can Say the Plague Raged”: Historicizing Epidemics.Lori Jones - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):73-86.
    In the 17th century, English plague-tract writers began replicating a practice begun some decades earlier by their French and Italian counterparts: creating local histories to better describe the disease and explain how best to manage it. After the great London outbreak of 1665, however, plague deaths often went unrecorded and English tract-writing declined significantly. Without local epidemics to record or historicize, the authors became remote spectators of plague elsewhere, their own outbreaks perhaps now seemingly safe in the past. When plague (...)
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    The End of Smallpox for Indigenous Peoples in the United States, 1898–1903: An Unnoticed Finale.Paul Kelton - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):217-230.
    Smallpox's devastating impact on Indigenous Peoples of the Americas figures prominently in the historical literature. But when did this horrific experience end? Historians have not noticed, and there are good reasons why they have not, at least for Indigenous Peoples of the United States. Between 1898 and 1903, federal agents and tribal officials enforced quarantines, isolated infected individuals, and vaccinated communities in response to a nation-wide epidemic. Smallpox consequently disappeared. But the evidence we can use to identify this ending leads (...)
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    Paleosyndemics: A Bioarchaeological and Biosocial Approach to Study Infectious Diseases in the Past.Clark Spencer Larsen & Fabian Crespo - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):181-196.
    Skeletons drawn from archaeological contexts provide a fund of data for assessing disease in general and timing of epidemics in particular in past societies. The bioarchaeological record presents an especially important perspective on timing of some of the world's most catastrophic diseases, such as leprosy, tuberculosis, plague (Black Death), and treponematosis. Application of new developments in paleogenomics and paleogenetics presents new opportunities to document ancient pathogens' DNA (for example, Black Death), track their history, and assess their beginning and end points. (...)
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    When Do Epidemics End? Scientific Insights from Mathematical Modelling Studies.Natalie M. Linton, Francesca A. Lovell-Read, Emma Southall, Hyojung Lee, Andrei R. Akhmetzhanov, Robin N. Thompson & Hiroshi Nishiura - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):31-60.
    Quantitative assessments of when infectious disease outbreaks end are crucial, as resources targeted towards outbreak responses typically remain in place until outbreaks are declared over. Recent improvements and innovations in mathematical approaches for determining when outbreaks end provide public health authorities with more confidence when making end-of-outbreak declarations. Although quantitative analyses of outbreaks have a long history, more complex mathematical and statistical methodologies for analysing outbreak data were developed early in the 20th century and continue to be refined. Historically, such (...)
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    Ursula Klein, Technoscience in History: Prussia, 1750-1850.Thomas Morel - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):297-300.
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    “Going ‘the Last Mile’ to Eliminate Malaria” in Myanmar?Atsuko Naono - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):119-132.
    This article explores the question of how malaria “ends” in Myanmar, since malaria has been categorized both as an epidemic and as being endemic on seemingly countless occasions. The example of malaria reveals some of the limitations of understanding a disease within a single category of experience, such as an “epidemic.” In the case of malaria, epidemic is a shifting term that is best understood as being the point at which health authorities decide to intervene in the disease, rather than (...)
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    Andrea Strazzoni, Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science: From Regius to 's Gravesande.Pietro Daniel Omodeo - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):301-304.
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    Mythological Endings: John Snow (1813–1858) and the History of American Epidemiology.Margaret Pelling - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):231-248.
    During the COVID-19 epidemic, the name of the 19th-century English physician John Snow (1813-1858) has cropped up to a surprising extent, notably in connection with the severe cholera epidemic of 1854 in the district of Golden Square, London. It is repeatedly stated that Snow brought this epidemic of waterborne disease to an end by removing the handle of the Broad Street pump. It is also widely known that this story is a myth. Nonetheless, the Broad Street pump story as told (...)
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    Edited by Laurent Mazliak and Rossana Tazzioli, Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918-1928: Trajectories and Institutions. [REVIEW]Jean-Guy Prévost - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):305-308.
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    Closure and the Critical Epidemic Ending.Arthur Rose - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):261-272.
    “An epidemic has a dramaturgic form,” wrote Charles Rosenberg in 1989, “Epidemics start at a moment in time, proceed on a stage limited in space and duration, following a plot line of increasing and revelatory tension, move to a crisis of individual and collective character, then drift towards closure.” Rosenberg's dramaturgic description has become an important starting point for critical studies of epidemic endings (Vargha, 2016; Greene & Vargha, 2020; Charters & Heitman, 2021) that, rightly, criticize this structure for its (...)
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    Chikungunya in Brazil, an Endless Epidemic.Jean Segata - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):133-144.
    This article examines how chikungunya virus disease is epidemiologically and politically invisible in Brazil, unlike other diseases related to the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, such as Zika, dengue, and yellow fever. It demonstrates the intricacy of identifying the presence of chikungunya, as its effects are generally materialised in pain, which is difficult to measure and quantify, and thus is invisible to medical and state bureaucracy. As with other chronic diseases, chikungunya transforms identities and social relations among those affected. By analysing the (...)
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    End of a Pandemic? Contemporary Explanations for the End of Plague in 18th‑Century England.Paul Slack - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):87-98.
    The great plague in London in 1665 was the last in a series of epidemics that had begun with the Black Death in the 14th century. Plagues continued elsewhere in Europe into the 18th century, but after 1679 no cases of plague were reported in England at all. The disease seemed to have disappeared. How could that be explained? The purpose of this paper is to discover when contemporaries began to think that plague had gone for good, and why they (...)
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    The End of Plague in Europe.Nils Chr Stenseth, Katharine R. Dean & Barbara Bramanti - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):61-72.
    At the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES, University of Oslo), a group of biologists has been working for decades to disentangle the complex mechanisms of plague epizootics and epidemics in places where extant wild rodent reservoirs are present. These questions have been approached through ecological and climatic studies, mathematic modeling, as well as genomics and epidemiology. In 2013-2018, the Centre hosted the ERC-project MedPlag, which explored past pandemics through the lenses of additional disciplines, like archaeogenomics (ancient DNA), anthropology, (...)
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    Historical Epidemiology and the Single Pathogen Model of Epidemic Disease.James L. A. Webb - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):197-206.
    Pre-existing medical conditions and co-infections are common to all human populations, although the natures of the pre-existing conditions and the types of co-infections vary. For these reasons, among others, the arrival of a highly infectious pathogenic agent may differentially affect the disease burden in different sub-populations, as a function of varying combinations of endemic disease, chronic disease, genetic or epigenetic vulnerabilities, compromised immunological status, and socially determined risk exposure. The disease burden may also vary considerably by age cohort and socio-economic (...)
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    The Multiple Temporalities of Epidemic Endings.Einar Wigen - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):273-286.
    The beginnings of epidemics are often told as if they are simple to locate in time. They take the form of a crisis, and as such, function as great synchronisers of different temporalities, bringing social temporalities “in line” with biological ones. In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, political processes that are usually slow were accelerated in order to “catch up with” the fast pace of the virus's reproduction, as policymakers saw a need to contain the virus. The (...)
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    Edited by Kirsti Niskanen and Michael J. Barany, Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona: Incarnations and Contestations.Per Wisselgren - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (1):309-312.
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