The Third Pandemic
Episode 10 - May 16, 2020
Merle and Lee talk to Christos Lynteris, a medical anthropologist, on the Third Pandemic of Plague and its impact across the globe between 1894 and 1959. The pandemic is discussed in terms of its origins, spread and social, political and epistemological consequences, but also in terms of establishing the notion of the pandemic in medicine and beyond. Christos offers insights into the long-lasting legacies of the pandemic, including the development of the scientific study of zoonosis, epidemic photography, and various technologies of epidemic control.
Further Reading
- Carol Benedict, Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996)
- Myron Echenberg, Plague Ports: Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894–1901 (New York: New York University Press, 2007)
- Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris, Sulphuric Utopias: A History of Maritime Fumigation (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2020)
- Guenter B. Risse, Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco’s Chinatown (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)
- More than 2000 photographs of the third plague pandemic are available OA at the University of Cambridge Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic Photographic Database
Our Guest
Christos Lynteris,
Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical
Anthropological & Film Studies
(Social Anthropology), University of St. Andrews
