Articles for Understanding Pandemics and Epidemiology
At the MIT Press, our thoughts are with those whose lives have been profoundly affected by COVID-19. We have gone through our archives to select articles from our collection that speak to issues related to pandemics, epidemiology, and other relevant topics. We are thankful to our publishing partners in helping us make this vital information available and are hopeful that they contribute to a greater understanding of our current situation.
The following articles are freely available through August 31, 2020:
- “The Short-Term Impact of SARS on the Chinese Economy” by Wen Hai, Zhong Zhao, Jian Wang, and Zhen-Gang Hou from Asian Economic Papers 3:1 (Winter 2004)
- “Economic Impact of SARS: The Case of Hong Kong” by Alan Siu and Y. C. Richard Wong from Asian Economic Papers 3:1 (Winter 2004)
- “Potential Impacts of the SARS Outbreak on Taiwan's Economy” by Ji Chou, Nai-Fong Kuo, and Su-Ling Peng from Asian Economic Papers 3:1 (Winter 2004)
- “Comments” by Seiichi Katayama from Asian Economic Papers 3:1 (Winter 2004)
- “The Impact of SARS on Asian Economies” Donald Hanna and Yiping Huang from Asian Economic Papers 3:1 (Winter 2004)
- “Globalization and Disease: The Case of SARS” by Jong-Wha Lee and Warwick J. McKibbin from Asian Economic Papers 3:1 (Winter 2004)
- “Comments on the SARS special session” by Jeffrey D. Sachs from Asian Economic Papers 3:1 (Winter 2004)
- “Machine Learning with Statistical Imputation for Predicting Drug Approvals” by Andrew Lo, Kien Wei Siah, Chi Heem Wong from the Harvard Data Science Review 1:1 (NOTE: this article is Open Access and freely available at all times)
- "Special issue 1 - COVID-19: Unprecedented Challenges and Chances" from the Harvard Data Science Review (NOTE: this entire issue is Open Access and freely available at all times)
- “Biosecurity Reconsidered: Calibrating Biological Threats and Responses” by Gregory D. Koblentz from International Security 34:4 (Spring 2010)
- “A Double-Edged Sword: Globalization and Biosecurity” by Kendall Hoyt and Stephen G. Brooks from International Security 28:3 (Winter 2003/04)
- “Expert Knowledge in Intelligence Assessments: Bird Flu and Bioterrorism” by Kathleen M. Vogel from International Security 38:3 (Winter 2013/14)
- “HIV/AIDS and the Changing Landscape of War in Africa” by Stefan Elbe from International Security 27:2 (Fall 2002)
- “In the Shadow of the Bomb: U.S.-Soviet Biomedical Relations in the Early Cold War, 1944–1948” by Nikolai Krementsov from the Journal of Cold War Studies 9:4 (Fall 2007)
- “Operation 'Denver': The East German Ministry of State Security and the KGB's AIDS Disinformation Campaign, 1985–1986 (Part 1)” by Douglas Selvege from the Journal of Cold War Studies 21:4 (Fall 2019)
- “Between Famine and Death: England on the Eve of the Black Death—Evidence from Paleoepidemiology and Manorial Accounts” by Sharon DeWitte and Philip Slavin from the Journal of Interdisciplinary History 44:1 (Summer 2013)
- “Death by the Lake: Mortality Crisis in Early Fourteenth-Century Central Asia” by Philip Slavin from the Journal of Interdisciplinary History 50:1 (Summer 2019)
- “Households and Plague in Early Modern Italy” by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. and Guido Alfani from the Journal of Interdisciplinary History 38:2 (Autumn 2007)
- “Human–Bovine Plagues in the Early Middle Ages” by Timothy P. Newfield from the Journal of Interdisciplinary History 46:1 (Summer 2015)
- “A New Chapter in Medical History” by Anne Hardy from the Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39:3 (Winter 2009)
- “Rats, Communications, and Plague: Toward an Ecological History” by Michael McCormick from the Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34:1 (Summer 2003)
- “The Under-Appreciated Rodent: Harbingers of Plague From the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century” by Anne Hardy from the Journal of Interdisciplinary History 50:2 (Autumn 2019)
- “Was Plague an Exclusively Urban Phenomenon? Plague Mortality in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries” by Daniel R. Curtis from the Journal of Interdisciplinary History 47:2 (Autumn 2016)
- “A Strong Couple: New Media and Socially Engaged Art” by Sjoukje Van der Meulen from Leonardo 50:2 (April 2017)
- “Becoming Organ-ized: The Creativity of Organization, Dis-Organization and Re-Organization in Scientific and Artistic Experiments” by Timothy S. Barker from Leonardo 45:3 (June 2012)
- “Carrier: Forever Bound” by Melinda Rackham from Leonardo 36:2 (April 2003)
- “Computer Virus Sculptures and the Science That Inspired Them” by Forrest McCluer Leonardo 47:3 (June 2014)
- “Cybernetic Bacteria 2.0” by Anna Dumitriu and Blay Whitby from Leonardo 44:3 (June 2011)
- “The Drama of Dengue Fever: Civic-Oriented Journalists, Community and Artists Fighting Dengue” by Tiago Franklin Rodrigues Lucena, Ana Paula Machado Velho, Vinicius Durval Dorne, and Diana Maria Gallicchio Domingues from Leonardo 51:2 (April 2018)
- “Flesh-eaters: Notes toward a Zombie Methodology” by Martin O'Brien from Leonardo 49:3 (June 2016)
- “Gene Culture: Molecular Metaphor in Visual Art” by Suzanne Anker from Leonardo 33:5 (October 2000)
- “The Genome and Art: Finding Potential in Unlikely Places” by Ellen K. Levy from Leonardo 34:2 (April 2001)
- “InnerBody: Using Interactive and Multisensory Interfaces to Design Behavioral Change” by Predrag Nikolic and David Adrian Cheok from Leonardo 53:2 (Forthcoming April 2020)
- “Liberation or Control: Disobedient Connections in Contemporary Works” by Bojana Kunst from Leonardo 38:5 (October 2005)
- “Living (on) Dust: Around the Globe with Mineral Particles & Microbial Hitchhikers” by Monika Bakke from Leonardo 48:3 (June 2015)
- “Make Do and Mend: Exploring Gene Regulation and CRISPR through a FEAT (Future Emerging Art and Technology) Residency with the MRG-Grammar Project” by Anna Dumitriu and Sarah Goldberg from Leonardo 52:1 (February 2019)
- “The Making of Sixty-Nine Days of Close Encounters at the Science Gallery” by Wouter Van den Broeck, Marco Quaggiotto, Lorenzo Isella, Alain Barrat, and Ciro Cattuto from Leonardo 45:3 (June 2012)
- “Modeling with the Immune System with Gestures: A Choreographic View of Embodiment in Science” by Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker, Michael Kimmel, Melanie Martes, and Peter Pietschmann from Leonardo 51:5 (October 2018)
- “The Next Evolutionary Step in the Ascent of Man in the Cosmos” by Jonas Salk from Leonardo 41:3 (June 2008)
- "Health Care Design: Current and Potential Research and Development" by June H. Park from Design Issues 31:1 (Winter 2015)
- "Coronavirus Fears and Macroeconomic Expectations" by Carola Binder from Review of Economics and Statistics (Just Accepted)
- "Coronavirus Perceptions and Economic Anxiety" by Thiemo Fetzer, Lukas Hensel, Johannes Hermle and Christopher Roth from Review of Economics and Statistics (Just Accepted)