James A Schafer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5884403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James A Schafer |
| GIVEN NAMES | James A |
| FAMILY NAME | Schafer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAFER J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-4086-6026 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Introduction
Over the past year, historians of medicine have found our discipline invested with a new sense of relevance. In trying to make sense of epidemics past and present, many of us have been substantially influenced by Charles Rosenberg’s 1989 Daedalus essay, “What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective.” Writing in the middle of another unfolding global pandemic, Rosenberg suggested that all epidemics possessed similar forms of social choreogr…
Introduction
Over the past year, historians of medicine have found our discipline invested with a new sense of relevance. In trying to make sense of epidemics past and present, many of us have been substantially influenced by Charles Rosenberg's 1989 Daedalus essay, "What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective." Writing in the middle of another unfolding global pandemic, Rosenberg suggested that all epidemics possessed similar forms of social choreogr…
Notes from the Field
Teaching the history of epidemics remains a critical mission of our profession, both inside and outside of the classroom. Charles E. Rosenberg's "dramaturgical model" of epidemic response endures as a useful and flexible heuristic. Through guided discussion of the dramaturgical model, students can develop a shared vocabulary and a working theory of epidemic responses through time. Students can apply the model, then revise and refine it for themse…
Fighting for Business
The American medical profession participated extensively in preparedness and mobilization for the First World War, with more than one in five doctors voluntarily enlisting in various branches of the Army and Navy Medical Corps. Medical officers were widely valorized for suspending their civilian careers and for sacrificing their professional income while in service. Because of the meager commissions that medical officers received by comparison wi…
Simon Finger, The Contagious City
In his erudite and well-written book, The Contagious City, Simon Finger endeavours ‘not just to provide a medical history that doesn't have the politics taken out, but rather to offer up a political and cultural history with the medicine put back in’ (p. xi). He succeeds mightily in this regard, and the reader is rewarded with a fresh perspective on the politics of public health in colonial America and the Early Republic that references William P…
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Simon Finger, The Contagious City
In his erudite and well-written book, The Contagious City, Simon Finger endeavours ‘not just to provide a medical history that doesn't have the politics taken out, but rather to offer up a political and cultural history with the medicine put back in’ (p. xi). He succeeds mightily in this regard, and the reader is rewarded with a fresh perspective on the politics of public health in colonial America and the Early Republic that references William P…
Fighting for Business
The American medical profession participated extensively in preparedness and mobilization for the First World War, with more than one in five doctors voluntarily enlisting in various branches of the Army and Navy Medical Corps. Medical officers were widely valorized for suspending their civilian careers and for sacrificing their professional income while in service. Because of the meager commissions that medical officers received by comparison wi…
Introduction
Over the past year, historians of medicine have found our discipline invested with a new sense of relevance. In trying to make sense of epidemics past and present, many of us have been substantially influenced by Charles Rosenberg's 1989 Daedalus essay, "What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective." Writing in the middle of another unfolding global pandemic, Rosenberg suggested that all epidemics possessed similar forms of social choreogr…
Notes from the Field
Teaching the history of epidemics remains a critical mission of our profession, both inside and outside of the classroom. Charles E. Rosenberg's "dramaturgical model" of epidemic response endures as a useful and flexible heuristic. Through guided discussion of the dramaturgical model, students can develop a shared vocabulary and a working theory of epidemic responses through time. Students can apply the model, then revise and refine it for themse…
Introduction
Over the past year, historians of medicine have found our discipline invested with a new sense of relevance. In trying to make sense of epidemics past and present, many of us have been substantially influenced by Charles Rosenberg’s 1989 Daedalus essay, “What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective.” Writing in the middle of another unfolding global pandemic, Rosenberg suggested that all epidemics possessed similar forms of social choreogr…
Medicine (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (3 works) · History (3 works) · History of Science and Medicine (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Pandemic (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works)