@monicaMedHist Not sure how practical the advice of "ask a local humanist" is going to be (in our case - how many historian experts do I need to contact to cover a collection of 700 years of plague across Eurasia?). I am sort of fine in learning by rebutta
@DrCRollinger Joris Roosen and Daniel R. Curtis, "Dangers of Noncritical Use of Historical Plague Data," https://t.co/Od9E4GH7yF. I'll let you get caught up on the literature in the field now.
@drkahaynes Tip #1 from historian of science. Use whatever databases (PubMed, SciVerse, etc.) are at your disposal. But then question them. What do they exclude? Historians have been trying to get across this basic truth about how data gets gathered in the
@Byzanzforscher @SarahEBond @kgeographer @WalterScheidel @eltonteb @RyanMHorne ... the centuries of plague histories that keep parroting the same data & go back to original sources. The project just won the @CARMENmedieval Prize. In the meantime, on th
@nathankhensley When we have a unit on medical history in my med hum class, I always close with this articl, "Dangers of Noncritical Use of Historical Plague Data," https://t.co/LsMtNlaB0S
@MichaelESmith @er_crema @UCamArchaeology See this: https://t.co/Od9E4GH7yF. Historians are in conniptions over the way disease data gets "quantified" from historical sources.
Paper not online yet, but will be interesting to see if they learned from https://t.co/67Y2hZobrr https://t.co/PMfsuSmInh
Historical review: Dangers of noncritical use of historical plague data [Emerg Infect Dis., Jan 2018 — free full-text] https://t.co/9nmNQjFKEA
Ahead of print @CDC_EIDjournal Dangers of Noncritical Use of Historical Plague Data https://t.co/OgyDW2pTpv
If historians aren't persuaded that Biraben's data are a full and reliable record of the history of human plague outbreaks, why should they be relied on by scientists? https://t.co/Od9E4GH7yF. Well, at least this gives room to continue the discussion.
Why medical history and its trained practitioners matter to contemporary biomedical research. Must read. #histmed #medhum https://t.co/x0KFohCz3k
RT @BioAndBaseball: Dangers of Noncritical Use of Historical #Plague Data. https://t.co/MeNOdjBbM3 cc @MZiegler3
RT @monicaMedHist: This is a major victory that this study on #plague datasets has been published in *Emerging Infectious Diseases*, a jour…
RT @monicaMedHist: This is a major victory that this study on #plague datasets has been published in *Emerging Infectious Diseases*, a jour…
RT @monicaMedHist: This is a major victory that this study on #plague datasets has been published in *Emerging Infectious Diseases*, a jour…
RT @BioAndBaseball: Dangers of Noncritical Use of Historical #Plague Data. https://t.co/MeNOdjBbM3 cc @MZiegler3