Espinosa Mariola
Bull Hist Med. 2020;94(4):627-636. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2020.0086.
This essay considers what thirty years of scholarship on the history of epidemics in Latin America and the larger hemisphere can bring to a current reading of Charles Rosenberg's influential 1989 essay, "What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective." It advocates that taking a broader geographical view is valuable to understanding better the arc of an epidemic in society. In addition, it proposes that, to see the ways in which the United States is experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to place the United States alongside the experiences of other countries of the Americas rather than making comparisons to Europe.
本文探讨了三十年来关于拉丁美洲及更大半球范围内流行病历史的学术研究，能为当前解读查尔斯·罗森伯格1989年发表的具有影响力的论文《什么是流行病？从历史角度看艾滋病》带来什么。它主张，从更广阔的地理视角出发，对于更好地理解社会中流行病的发展轨迹具有重要价值。此外，它还提出，要了解美国正在经历新冠疫情的方式，我们需要将美国与美洲其他国家的经历放在一起，而不是与欧洲进行比较。
