Interdisciplinary Research and Pandemics

The need for interdisciplinary studies of historic pandemics.

In May 2010, biomedical and social scientists from 12 countries n 4 continents convened in Copenhagen, Denmark to discuss the pidemiological, social, and public health consequences of 5 diverse andemics, the 1889 “Russian,” the 1918 “Spanish,” the 1957 Asian,” the 1968 “Hong-Kong” and the 2009 pandemics. During the Historical Influenza Pandemics: Lessons Learned” Conference, perpectives were pr...

Perspectives on pandemics: a research agenda.

During the 20th century, indisputable pandemics of influenza occurred in 1918, 1957, and 1968. The pandemics of 1957 (A/H2N2) and 1968 (A/H3N2) were associated with major antigenic changes in the virus, probably reflecting introduction by recombination of animal virus genes. The 1918 epidemic is beyond the reach of modern virology but, based on seroarcheology, appears to have been caused by a v...

The Interdisciplinary Research Process

This book provides case studies of the performance of interdisciplinary research. It is hoped that these case studies will prove instructive both to students and other scholars as they perform interdisciplinary research. This introductory chapter does not provide a detailed overview of these case studies: Brief descriptions of each chapter are provided in the Preface, and a discussion of lesson...

Interdisciplinary Research in Physics

Interdisciplinary Issues in Nanoscale Research

Great expectations and promises rest on interdisciplinarity in nanoscale research. Yet, although many science and engineering disciplines actually began to engage in this field, it is only poorly understood what interdisciplinarity actually is and what factors hinder and promote it. Part I provides an introduction to interdisciplinarity, its cognitive and social elements, and its related concep...