| Sumario: | Given the exigencies of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have chosen to focus our review of science and medicine studies to feature works that speak to three core concerns that have emerged from this global and sociopolitical health crisis. The monographs that we explore here grapple with the following related questions: (1) How we understand, prepare for, and succeed or fail in preventing and responding to pandemics in a global economy; (2) How the origins of health epidemics and pandemics are imbricated in Western imperial violence and global capitalist structures; (3) How the development, circulation, and protocols of public health, health-care systems, and modern medicine have emerged in response to colonialism, global expansion, and their attendant environmental and health crises. Readers will note that both works reviewed here take as given the undeniable influence of colonial legacies on conceptions and treatments of disease. To our mind, these works are additionally remarkable in the ways that they foreground subjects and methods, whether non-Western or nonhuman animal, that are typically subordinated or historically neglected in studies of the history of medicine.
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