Zinsser’s Naturalistic History of Infectious Disease

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Zinsser’s Naturalistic History of Infectious Disease

Sunday 17 November 2024 is the 146th anniversary of the birth of Hans Zinsser (17 November 1878 – 04 September 1940), who was born in New York City on this date in 1878.

Zinsser is the author of Rats, Lice and History, which is an account of history in terms of infectious disease—specially, typhus, which he wrote about as though it were an individual, and as if he were writing a biography—the biography of a disease. In the way of writing a biography of typhus, Zinsser presented a big picture account of human history that is thoroughly naturalistic.

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