This working group aims to create new avenues of inquiry in the history of medicine by focusing on the changing social, cultural, and political meanings of immunity across time and place. Our scholarship ranges across the early modern and modern eras and includes the U.S., Western Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. We would therefore be open to papers on all world regions and eras. The group draws on the conveners’ backgrounds in feminist, queer, and disability studies to raise new questions about the specific history of immunity—a topic that has garnered a great deal of interest in the COVID-19 era.
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