环境材料和流行病的历史
1Durham University, UK.
概括
环境和医学历史学家越来越多地使用疾病的物质性来理解流行病. 这种方法结合了生物因素和文化背景,揭示了多个规模的流行病的隐藏方面.
科学领域:
- 环境历史 环境历史
- 医学史 医学史 医学史
- 科学的历史科学的历史.
背景情况:
- 历史学家们对疾病实质性的重要性日益达成共识.
- 需要弥合环境和健康研究之间的差距,特别是在流行病方面.
研究的目的:
- 评估环境和医学历史学家在传染病研究中如何处理物质性.
- 展示物质性分析如何提高对医疗系统和流行病规模的理解.
主要方法:
- 对疾病物质性的历史学术研究的分析.
- 检查包含物质物体,生物行为者和非人类的作品.
- 确定共同的方法方法:科学框架,多种类分析,规模和空间思维.
主要成果:
- 与物质性的接触并不否定文化或医疗系统的分析,而是丰富了它们.
- 实质性研究揭示了医疗实践的风险和流行病的多尺度性质.
- 方法上的共同点揭示了过去流行病的以前看不见的方面.
结论:
- 整合物质性,科学数据和多种视角,为研究流行病提供了一个强大的框架.
- 这种方法避免了极端的生物决定主义和构造主义.
- 关于都柏林肠热的案例研究说明了这些框架的实际应用.
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