Jim Downs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3962607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jim Downs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jim |
| FAMILY NAME | Downs |
| SIGNATURE | DOWNS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gettysburg College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fellow time travelers
Out in Central Pennsylvania
Out in Central Pennsylvania: The History of an LGBTQ Community is a carefully researched study of the politics and culture of a place that has been otherwise overshadowed by not only queer histories of major cities but also of state histories of Pennsylvania. Brent D. Glass, director emeritus of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, notes in the book’s foreword that Pennsylvania State University Press, the same publisher of this vo…
Out of Breath
Problems caused by overcrowding and the simple need to breathe represent one of the major consequences of medical racism. With few exceptions, histories of epidemics, disease prevention, and sanitation often focus on municipal reform efforts to clean up gritty urban centers from London to Paris to New York. This article traces how concerns about ventilation emerged during the transatlantic slave trade and continued to be a problem for Black peopl…
Maladies of Empire
Maladies of Empire
A sweeping, global history of how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of Western medicine. We think we know the stories of medical progress. We know that during the 1854 London cholera outbreak, John Snow traced the origin of the epidemic to a water pump, which led to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale’s contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War revolutionized medical hygiene, transforming hospitals…
Richard A. McKay. Patient Zero and the Making of the Aids Epidemic
The outbreak of HIV in the early 1980s led to both an epidemiological and an epistemological crisis. Doctors, public health officials, scientists, politicians and, most of all, LGBTQ people struggled to understand HIV, to classify its pathology, to define its causes, and to treat it. In a slip of a pen, CDC epidemiologists wrote the letter “O” to identify one of the subjects as “Out(side)-of-California” but it got misread as the number zero, whic…
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Of fishnet stockings, queer theory, and motherhood
Out of Breath
Problems caused by overcrowding and the simple need to breathe represent one of the major consequences of medical racism. With few exceptions, histories of epidemics, disease prevention, and sanitation often focus on municipal reform efforts to clean up gritty urban centers from London to Paris to New York. This article traces how concerns about ventilation emerged during the transatlantic slave trade and continued to be a problem for Black peopl…
Of fishnet stockings, queer theory, and motherhood
Connexions
Richard A. McKay. Patient Zero and the Making of the Aids Epidemic
The outbreak of HIV in the early 1980s led to both an epidemiological and an epistemological crisis. Doctors, public health officials, scientists, politicians and, most of all, LGBTQ people struggled to understand HIV, to classify its pathology, to define its causes, and to treat it. In a slip of a pen, CDC epidemiologists wrote the letter “O” to identify one of the subjects as “Out(side)-of-California” but it got misread as the number zero, whic…
Maladies of Empire
A sweeping, global history of how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of Western medicine. We think we know the stories of medical progress. We know that during the 1854 London cholera outbreak, John Snow traced the origin of the epidemic to a water pump, which led to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale’s contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War revolutionized medical hygiene, transforming hospitals…
Maladies of Empire
Out in Central Pennsylvania
Out in Central Pennsylvania: The History of an LGBTQ Community is a carefully researched study of the politics and culture of a place that has been otherwise overshadowed by not only queer histories of major cities but also of state histories of Pennsylvania. Brent D. Glass, director emeritus of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, notes in the book’s foreword that Pennsylvania State University Press, the same publisher of this vo…
Out of Breath
Problems caused by overcrowding and the simple need to breathe represent one of the major consequences of medical racism. With few exceptions, histories of epidemics, disease prevention, and sanitation often focus on municipal reform efforts to clean up gritty urban centers from London to Paris to New York. This article traces how concerns about ventilation emerged during the transatlantic slave trade and continued to be a problem for Black peopl…
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History (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Queer (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Australian History and Society (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works)