Sheilagh Ogilvie
The Covid-19 pandemic rightly focused our attention on medical science. But working on economic history and historical demography, I’ve always been struck by how the outcomes of epidemics are shaped by more than microbes and medicines. Why did some societies suffer so much more than others? Why were some life-saving innovations adopted quickly in one place, but rejected for decades just a few miles away?
Tags: death, disease, economic history, epidemics, institutions, plague, social history
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