Health

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Aditya Ramesh
Assistant Professor
Adam Warren
Associate Professor

Latest News

Nancy Bristow Lecture on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19 (June 3, 2020)
“We Can’t Not Talk about It”: History Instructors Teach the Virus (May 18, 2020)
UW History Professors Investigate Global Histories of Health in New Books (May 13, 2020)
Adam Warren Receives ACLS Grant (February 16, 2017)
Amanda Morse: Finding Out Where History Can Take You (February 6, 2017)

Related Research

Eric Johnson, "When endemic met epidemic: cholera, chronic disease and public health in Kazan, 1788–1842," Urban History (2020).
"Partnership and Discord in International Debates about Coca Chewing, 1949-1950," Medicine Anthropology Theory 4, no. 2 (2018), pp. 35-51.
“Between the Foreign and the Local: French Midwifery, Traditional Practitioners, and Vernacular Medical Knowledge about Childbirth in Lima, Peru.” História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos 22, no. 1 (2015), pp. 179-200.
“From Natural History to Popular Remedy: Animals and their Medicinal Applications among the Kallawaya in Colonial Peru.” In Centering Animals: Writing Animals into Latin American History, eds. Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici. Duke University Press, 2013.
“Medicine and the Dead in Lima: Conflicts over Burial Reform and the Meaning of Catholic Piety, 1808-1850.” In Death and Dying in Colonial Latin America, eds. Martina Will de Chaparro andMiruna Achim, University of Arizona Press, 2011.
“La Medicina y los muertos en Lima: Conflictos sobre la reforma de los entierros y el significado de la piedad católica, 1808-1850.” In El rastro de la salud en el Perú, eds. Marcos Cueto, Jorge Lossio, and Carol Pasco. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, 2009, pp. 45-89.
“Recetarios: sus autores y lectores en el Perú colonial.” Histórica 33, no. 1 (2009), pp. 11-41.