The latest issue of Centaurus, The Official Journal of the European Society for the History of Science is now available online. This issue is currently entirely free access. This spotlight issue provides broad historical insight into COVID-19, showing that epidemics need to be studied within their broader cultural, political, scientific, and geographic contexts, and reflecting on how history can contribute to a better understanding of our current predicament. Issue editors: Erica Charters and Koen Vermeir.
- Editorial: Doing history in the time of COVID ‐19, by Koen Vermeir
- Erica Charters and Richard A. McKay, The history of science and medicine in the context of COVID-19
- Monica H. Green, Emerging diseases, re‐emerging histories
- P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince, Layers of epidemy: Present pasts during the first weeks of COVID‐19 in western Kenya
- Angela Ki Che Leung, Chinese state and society in epidemic governance: A historical perspective
- John Henderson, The invisible enemy: Fighting the plague in early modern Italy
- Kristin Heitman, Authority, autonomy and the first London Bills of Mortality
- Nükhet Varlık, Rethinking the history of plague in the time of COVID ‐19
- Margaret Pelling, “Bosom vipers”: Endemic versus epidemic disease
- Benoît Pouget, Quarantine, cholera, and international health spaces: Reflections on 19th‐century European sanitary regulations in the time of SARS‐CoV-2
- Frédéric Keck, Asian tigers and the Chinese dragon: Competition and collaboration between sentinels of pandemics from SARS to COVID‐19
- Flavio D’Abramo and Sybille Neumeyer, A historical and political epistemology of microbes
- Brian Dolan, It wasn’t supposed to be a coronavirus: The quest for an influenza A(H5N1)‐derived vaccine and the limits of pandemic preparedness
- Florence Bretelle‐Establet, Science, demons, and gods in the battle against the COVID-19 epidemic
- Anne‐Emanuelle Birn, How to have narrative‐flipping history in a pandemic: Views of/from Latin America
- David S. Jones, COVID‐19, history, and humility
Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000498/2020/62/2