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Fleas, Knowledge-Making, and the Epidemiology of Plague in British India: Perspectives from the Bombay Epidemic, 1905–1906 (2024)
Book Chapter
Webster, E. (2024). Fleas, Knowledge-Making, and the Epidemiology of Plague in British India: Perspectives from the Bombay Epidemic, 1905–1906. In L. Hollsten, O. Latva, S. Lillbroända-Annala, S. Rytty, & T. Räsänen (Eds.), Human–Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks (248-266). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004715448_014

The Bombay plague epidemic is estimated to have killed over 180,000 people in the city from its arrival in 1896 to its eventual disappearance in the 1930s. This chapter explores how experiments developed by the Second Plague Commission in 1906-1907 i... Read More about Fleas, Knowledge-Making, and the Epidemiology of Plague in British India: Perspectives from the Bombay Epidemic, 1905–1906.

Environmental Materialities and the History of Pandemics. (2024)
Journal Article
Webster, E. (2024). Environmental Materialities and the History of Pandemics. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 79(4), 363–379. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrae007

Over the last several decades, a growing group of environmental and medical historians have argued that engagement with the materiality of disease is critical to eroding the false boundaries between environment and health, and especially to the histo... Read More about Environmental Materialities and the History of Pandemics..