Warwick Anderson

TL;DR: Comparing historical perceptions of three epidemics in the Philippines and the responses they elicited allows us to see how these disease outbreaks were conceived in terms of configuration, whether ecological or sociological, and contamination.

TL;DR: It is an unremarkable truism that not so long ago most historians of medicine were white male doctors documenting the progress of medical ideas and practices but now medical historians in Australia, the United States and Britain are more likely to have learned a wry scepticism in Ph.D. programs and to write a critical social or a cultural history of disease or health care.

TL;DR: For example, this article pointed out that longer and more intense experiences of the continuing pandemic have changed the minds of Agamben, Zizek, Latour, and others like them.