Research note: Sleeping sickness in colonial East and Central Africa
This post summarizes the research by Headrick (2014) on responses to sleeping sickness epidemics in colonial Africa.
Research note: Colonial approaches to sleeping sickness
This post focuses on how British and French colonial governments reacted to sleeping sickness epidemics and what motivated their approach.
Epidemic Disease and Indigenous Survival: Research Findings for Colonial Latin America
Post-contact depopulation in the New World resulted from the introduction of epidemic diseases to which Indigenous peoples were defenceless.
Living in an Interwar World: Communicable Disease and Epidemic Information
This article traces the origins of the current system of global health information and the foundations of current communications problems.
Health progress and inequality: the first year of LRHM
Long Run Health Matters is one year old! This post puts together the research summaries published during the last year.
Seasonality in the Age of Pandemics, 1817-1920
Asia particularly suffered from the cholera, plague and influenza pandemics between 1817 and 1920. This piece highlights the various ways in which ‘seasonality’ mattered in those three pandemics.
