A Historiographical Inquiry into the Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Borders in the Studies of Great Epidemics: Bugs and Borders
The Edwin Mellen Press (Verlag)
978-1-4955-0314-6 (ISBN)
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This book analyses a variety of aspects within the scholarly history writing on the three big epidemics of modern times. Among them are: Their preferred units of space; political geographical, social or cultural; their preferred points of view and selection of sources; the most significant actors, structures, events and actions that are studied, discussed and presented; how the three different epidemics are interpreted as agents of change, subject to change or changing historical objects: how the scholars select and discuss what they perceive as important social and human values within their historical material and topic of study; their preferred forms of narrative and discourse, and the scholars' open or implicit message to their readers and research communities; What the experienced historians, of cholera, tuberculosis and Spanish flu respectively, explicitly state as important virtues in historical research and present as historical "lessons" to be learned from their studies; about history and about the historian's craft.
May-Brith Ohman Nielsen is Professor of History at Agder University, Norway, and Professor of History Education at Karlstad University, Sweden. Her Dr. Philos. Degree with the thesis Soil and Words is from Bergen University, Norway. May-Brith Ohman Nielsen is editor of the Scandinavian Journal of History and was 2010-2013 head of the committee for humanities, FRIHYUM, at the Norwegian Research Council. She is a member of the Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Sample from Table of Contents: Foreword/ Acknowledgements; Theme and purpose of this historiographical study of bugs and borders; Epidemics and borders; What kinds of historical features are epidemics?; Method of approach and selection of sources: Analytical framework; Findings and discussions on aspects of space and time; Some significant historical aspects of the disease; Point of view; Main types of sources and main source challenges in research; Finding and discussions of the epidemics as historical events; Epidemics and change; Values, narratives and discourse: Values at the time, Narrative and discourse; Messages and scholarly virtues: Open and covert messages to the reader, Virtues in historical research and more.
| Verlagsort | NY |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4955-0314-3 / 1495503143 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4955-0314-6 / 9781495503146 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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