Germs, genomes, and global history in the time of Covid-19

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12876346
AutoresK Harper (0000-0001-9313-0725, University of Oklahoma, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen15
Número3
Páginas350-362
Fecha de publicación2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Global History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1740-0228 • E-ISSN: 1740-0236
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1740022820000273
OpenAlexW3095795624
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas1

The COVID-19 pandemic presents opportunities and challenges for historians working on the global history of health and disease. This article argues that the history of disease will benefit from interdisciplinary work that brings together historians, microbiologists, and archaeologists. Genomes are historical archives, in two complementary ways. Palaeogenomics provide direct access to genomes of the past, while phylogenetics furnish historical insight from evolutionary relationships. Both palaeogenomics and phylogenetics have already contributed enormously to the history of disease, helping us understand how human ecological transformation drives the evolution of our microparasites

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Ancient history · Biology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disease · Environmental ethics · Evolutionary biology · Gene · Genealogy · Genome · Geography · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Pandemic · Phylogenetics · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Work (physics · World history · Engineering · History · Medicine · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research · Zoonotic diseases and public health · Genetics · Virology