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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 87–100.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the text to reveal that the “disease” running rampant in early twentieth-century Egypt was not zar, but the scourge of African enslavement and the ever-looming specter of Egypt’s imperial desires in Sudan. The article concludes with a meditation on zar as an archive of African dispossession, displacement...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 31–39.
Published: 01 April 2023
... pathogenic viruses (Hanta, Marburg, HIV, and Ebola) burst onto the scene in the early eighties. Scuttling the post–World War II war on germs, these sudden emergences recast global pandemics as iterative, cascading “emerging infectious disease” events (see Cooper ). But what challenge does the notion...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 57–70.
Published: 01 April 2023
...: the normalization of health care as a privilege rather than a right. Turning to the 1918 pandemic makes clear another possible way of imagining the relation between disease and history, one that does not assume a scene of normalcy interrupted by catastrophe. Rather, it points to how the ordinary and eventful...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 33–58.
Published: 01 April 2017
... against industrial civilization would not have been possible, necessary, or indeed conceivable if Gandhi were located in India where, in 1909, the lack of industry was a bigger problem than an excess ofit.20 Degeneration, Disease and Democracy The discourse ofdegeneration in the late-nineteenth century...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 194–218.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Nancy D. Campbell The Metapharmacology ofthe "Addicted Brain" Nancy D. Campbell Addiction is a prime exemplar of a once-moral disorder now understood as a neurochemical "brain disorder" or "brain disease: Since arising in the late nineteenth-century United States, the concept of "addiction" has...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 45–51.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of epidemic disease,” and the empire began to facilitate pilgrimage “in an ultimately futile attempt to gain legitimacy among its Muslim subjects” ( Slight 5 ). For tsarist Russia, the decision to sponsor the hajj was not “to guard against perceived sanitary and political threats” but “was ultimately...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 April 2023
... engenders a protracted pandemic. Since death, violence, torture, and deceit are a part of collective popular consciousness in Kashmir, death by disease elicited unique responses. In a society where martyrdom is a metonym for a “good life,” how is death by virus perceived? In a volatile war zone, how does...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 20–26.
Published: 01 April 2023
... as well as the obscured histories of encounters and exchanges amid global power and wealth disparities that so fascinate me, went relatively unmarked: the sixtieth anniversary of a small research institute in East Pakistan that initially focused on the scourge of cholera, a deadly disease...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 53–79.
Published: 01 April 2021
...-or-none” disease, this new model conceived addiction as a syndrome in the literal sense, meaning “no more than the concurrence of phenomena,” wherein “not all elements need always be present, nor always with the same intensity,” and for which “no assumptions need be made about the cause...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 209–232.
Published: 01 October 2018
... But such an account is misleading. During the past century, prevention has effectively focused on accidents, 212 HISTORY ofthe PRESENT especially fatal ones, yet it has consistently ignored the much larger, but mostly submerged, iceberg ofoccupationaldisease. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of settled modes of historical thinking and practice. Histories of pandemics across time and space that proffer narratives of specific disease outbreaks (the flu of 1918, the black plague) as temporally marked moments, organized through a telos of beginnings and endings, successes and failures...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 244–258.
Published: 01 October 2011
... focused on thesomaticetiologyofpsychiatric disease. The micro­ scope was the privileged tool ofthe alienist'strade, and the goal ofbiological analysiswas toidentifypostmortem areas in the cerebral cortex responsible for variouspsychoticsymptoms.11 While today the focus has shifted from the cadaveric...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of migrant workers, especially those who had COVID-19 ( Equidem ). In February 2022, capitalizing on the antimigrant wave, Saudi authorities began the wholesale destruction of “overcrowded migrant settlements” in Jeddah. They did so in the name of cleansing “deprived” urban areas of “criminality and disease...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 52–56.
Published: 01 April 2023
... in intellectual history and the history of ideas: how and when did thinkers understand crisis as a nexus between “natural” disasters, such as drought and disease, on one hand, and political decisions, action and inaction, on the other? Such actions could range from mismanagement, corruption, incompetence...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 October 2011
... point of view, brain anatomy was certainly no better than physiology, and, with an eye to pecuniary considerations, I began to study nervous diseases.13 At the outset, {psychoanalysis} had only a single aim-that ofunderstanding . . . what were known as the 'functional' nervous diseases, with a view...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 192–218.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of the pestilence and the possible means of controlling the severity of disease. Learned men from universities in Perugia, Montpellier, Padua, Naples, and Paris wrote expansive treatises on the subject, almost every one of which assigned an aerial or astronomical origin to the pestilence ( Singer, “Some” ; Singer...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 170–193.
Published: 01 October 2011
... at every turn being overwhelmed by the same subjective fantasies that it had set out to pathologize, demystify, and overcome. Although Jean-Martin Charcot had officially erased les causes genitales from the etiology of hysteria, he continued to acknowledge the role of love in the disease privately...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 80–102.
Published: 01 April 2022
... discourse, but about it, something “half against his will,” something “forgotten” that will have to be retrieved. It was only many years later, Benjamin tells us, that “I learned what that was. Here, in this room, my father had ‘forgotten’ one piece of the death-news: That the disease was called syphilis...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 27–30.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the Twitterati who uses the platform to expose social injustice, and in particular caste struggles. This time, however, his post was more a plea for help than a clarion call for justice. He had just lost his father to COVID-19 and now his mother was ill with the disease. Her oxygen levels were dangerously low...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., where disabled veterans of World War I made up a large part of the disabled population, which also included children who had contracted spinal tuberculosis and other diseases during the war, as well as workers and children injured in heavy and dangerous industrial jobs. In her study on disability...