What is it about?
This article is the introduction to the scope and aims of a special supplementary issue of the journal "Isis: containing a curated collection of bibliographic essays on various historical aspects of pandemic and epidemic disease. The introduction provides a quick glance at what the special issue has to offer and how the material is organized.
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Why is it important?
This introduction sets up a very important collection of essays by experts in different areas of the history, anthropology, sociology and philosophy of infectious disease for the wider community of scholars who study different humanist and social science aspects of infectious disease and their histories. Each essay surveys a body of relevant literature and provides readers with a way to navigate the corpus of reading; our essay in turn, offers a quick guide to objectives of the project, and helps readers locate the most relevant collections for their interests.
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I feel very privileged to haven been asked to co-edit this volume, but the HSS bibliographer Stephen Weldon, because of what we managed to produce despite being beset with the COVID-19 pandemic and it's ongoing aftermath.
Dr Neeraja Sankaran
National Centre for Biological Sciences
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This page is a summary of: Scholarship in the Time of COVID-19: An Introduction to the IsisCB Special Issue on Pandemics, Isis, September 2023, University of Chicago Press,
DOI: 10.1086/726977.
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