Places and Spaces in Disease and Public Health with Graham Mooney
Episode 80 - October 20, 2021
Graham Mooney (Johns Hopkins University) talks to Merle and Lee about the key roles of place and space in how we understand disease in the modern world. After defining these terms and offering a few examples of how to research them, Graham discusses the key role of disease surveillance and tof state coercion in imperial centers and their colonies. He then turns to talk about changes in public health in the last half century, with a focus on the city of Baltimore. At the end, Graham reflects on all of these ideas in light of the Covid pandemic.
Further Reading
- Peter L. Beilenson and Patrick A. McGuire, Tapping into the Wire: The Real Urban Crisis (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).
- Lawrence T. Brown, The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021).
- Steven Erie, Vladimir Kogan, and Scott MacKenzie, Paradise Plundered: Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011).
- Mary Rizzo, Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore Beyond John Waters and the Wire (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020).
Our Guest
Graham Mooney
Associate Professor, Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
