Bull Hist Med. 2020;94(4):543-561. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2020.0081.
Over the past year, historians of medicine have found our discipline invested with a new sense of relevance. In trying to make sense of epidemics past and present, many of us have been substantially influenced by Charles Rosenberg's 1989 Daedalus essay, "What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective." Writing in the middle of another unfolding global pandemic, Rosenberg suggested that all epidemics possessed similar forms of social choreography, and that applying a narrative framework could help to understand their sequence, structure, and social impact. This issue of the Bulletin offers contributions from thirteen scholars working in various geographic, chronological, and thematic areas that engage with Rosenberg's fundamental historical question about what defines an epidemic, although the question takes on different forms, and different forms of urgency, in each of their works.
在过去的一年中，医学史学家发现我们的学科具有了一种新的相关性。在试图理解过去和现在的流行病时，我们中的许多人受到了查尔斯·罗森伯格 1989 年《代达罗斯》杂志论文“什么是流行病？艾滋病的历史透视”的重大影响。罗森伯格在另一场正在全球蔓延的大流行病中写道，所有的流行病都具有类似的社会编排形式，应用叙述框架可以帮助理解它们的顺序、结构和社会影响。本期《公报》提供了来自十三个学者的贡献，他们在不同的地理、时间和主题领域工作，探讨了罗森伯格关于界定流行病的基本历史问题，尽管这个问题在他们的作品中呈现出不同的形式和不同的紧迫性。
