Events

Please join us for a talk by Prerna Singh about her research on disease control in China and India at the next meeting of the East Asia Colloquium

Disease itself respects no boundaries. Yet polities with similar epidemiological, socioeconomic and demographic conditions, have had strikingly different levels of effectiveness in countering equivalently severe challenges posed by particular diseases. I seek to explore this puzzle through a comparative historical analysis of the attempts to control what is believed to be the deadliest disease to afflict mankind, smallpox, in the two matched coastal cities of Calcutta and Canton.