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About the exhibition | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
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“The people had done it themselves” | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
Exhibition chapter
Epidemics and ecology | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
Exhibition chapter
Trade-offs | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
Arcadia
Plague, Paleogenetics, and the Boundaries of the Discipline of History
This article examines the implications of the discussions surrounding the Justinianic Plague for the discipline of history.
Arcadia
The Typhoid Epidemic in Philippopolis, 1878
A brief narration about typhoid disease in the postwar Balkan city Philippopolis.
Multimedia | journal article
“Researching the Ebola Reservoir with the Heuristic of the Fetish in Guinea”
Through exploring virology research and its dangers in post-Ebola Guinea, this article argues that the hypothesis of a bat reservoir has taken on a heuristic role that can be compared to the way that a fetish polarizes relations between the people who manipulate and fear this idea.
Multimedia | journal article
“In the Teeth of History: Dental Decay in the Longue Durée”
Frank Zelko dives into the history of teeth and shows that today’s teeth are the product of centuries of biocultural evolution.