Bull Hist Med. 2020;94(4):700-709. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2020.0091.
This essay argues that considering disability and disability history needs to be part of any history of epidemics. Recent scholarship has shown the many intersections of disability history and history of medicine. This essay argues that disability plays many roles in an epidemic from establishing pre-existing conditions, to affecting the acute phase of the disease, to creating lingering disabilities in the long aftermath. Histories of epidemics that ignore the many ways in which disability affects the experience of an epidemic are incomplete.
这篇文章认为，考虑残疾和残疾历史应该成为任何流行病历史的一部分。最近的学术研究表明，残疾历史和医学历史有许多交叉点。本文认为，残疾在流行病中扮演着多种角色，从确定先前存在的条件，到影响疾病的急性期，再到在长期后果中造成持久的残疾。忽视残疾影响流行病经历的诸多方式的流行病历史是不完整的。
