2021
DOI: 10.5744/bi.2021.0003
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Beyond Mortality

Abstract: Epidemics and pandemics are typically discussed in terms of morbidity and mortality, susceptibility and immunity, and social responses to and impacts of the immediate epidemic event. Much less attention is paid to the longer-term consequences for individuals and populations in terms of the sequelae of infections, such as blindness after smallpox, deafness due to congenital rubella, and paralysis after polio. This same tendency is observed in the COVID-19 pandemic, with counts of cases and deaths, questions of … Show more

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“…While Battles and Gilmour (2022) and Franklin and Wilson (2020) do not explicitly take a syndemics approach in their studies on ancient disease, they include a multitude of socioeconomic and other biological factors impacting disease outcomes.…”
Section: Syndemics and Bioarchaeologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While Battles and Gilmour (2022) and Franklin and Wilson (2020) do not explicitly take a syndemics approach in their studies on ancient disease, they include a multitude of socioeconomic and other biological factors impacting disease outcomes.…”
Section: Syndemics and Bioarchaeologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In 1900, the average life expectancy at birth in the United States was ~47 years, and children under five accounted for 30.4% of all deaths ( 1 , 2 ). Survivors of these infections often suffered severe complications and disabilities such as paralytic poliomyelitis ( 3 ), osteomyelitis variolosa ( 4 ), and neurological and vision impairments, among others ( 5 , 6 ). However, there was a significant decline in the mortality rate from infectious diseases throughout the 20th century, from 797 deaths per 100,000 in 1900 to 59 deaths per 100,000 in 1996 ( 7 ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, analyses which have overcome these challenges reveal that the biocultural approach creates unique possibilities for deeper understandings of past pandemics, as well as large‐scale epidemics, and their diverse sequelae, such as physical impairment (e.g., Battles & Gilmour, 2022; Cameron et al, 2015; Crespo & Lawrenz, 2015; DeWitte & Slavin, 2013; Kelmelis & Dangvard Pedersen, 2019; Kelmelis & DeWitte, 2021; Larsen & Crespo, 2022). Within this relatively small body of work, a range of pandemics have been assessed, including those involved in post‐contact Indigenous depopulation in the Americas, climate change, the Black Death, and the 1918 influenza pandemic.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%