Seminar with Dr. John McNeill "Seven Millennia of Caribbean Disease History to 1850".
Friday, March 4, 2022 12:30pm
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Free EventRegistration is reserved for University of Miami faculty and students, but all are welcome to attend the Stanford lecture by Dr. John McNeill on Thursday, March 3, 2022 @ 7:00 pm at the Kislak Center or online. Registration required.
This seminar offers a long-term look at the disease environment of the Caribbean region since it was first settled roughly 7,000 years ago. It draws on paleogenomics, bio-archeology, and historical sources to explain the apparent insignificance of infectious disease before 1492 (or perhaps 1518) and thereafter its extreme prominence until about 1850. It presents the region's disease history, 1492-1850, as a tale of two "syndemics," a concept borrowed from medical anthropology. Multiple overlapping epidemics combined with social pathologies characteristic first of colonial conquest (ca. 1492-1570) and slave society (ca. 1640-1850) to generate two different disastrous demographic regimes.
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