Disease

Benjamin Brendel is a research associate in modern history at Philipps University Marburg (Germany). His research interests are in global history, international relations, the history of environment and critical infrastructure. In his current project he...

Jim Downs is the author of Sick from Freedom: African American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction. He is currently investigating the international cholera epidemics in the nineteenth century and how the outbreak of infectious...