Quarantine: Local and Global Histories
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"Quarantine: Local and Global Histories" is a historical study by Alison Bashford that examines how quarantine practices have shaped public health, borders, and global mobility from the early modern period to the twentieth century.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12639246 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Quarantine: Local and Global Histories Context triple: [Alison Bashford, notableWork, Quarantine: Local and Global Histories]
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Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, expert-driven overview of how pandemics emerge, spread, and can be controlled, written for a general audience by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist Peter C. Doherty.
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Infections and Inequalities
"Infections and Inequalities" is a seminal book by physician-anthropologist Paul Farmer that examines how poverty, social injustice, and global power imbalances shape the distribution and treatment of infectious diseases.
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C.
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox is a nonfiction book recounting the global campaign to eliminate smallpox, written from the perspective of one of the key public health leaders who helped achieve its eradication.
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D.
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease is a detailed case study examining the U.S. government's 1976 swine flu vaccination program and the complexities of public health decision-making under uncertainty.
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E.
The Great Influenza
The Great Influenza is John M. Barry’s historical account of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, examining its scientific, medical, and social impact on the modern world.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Quarantine: Local and Global Histories Target entity description: "Quarantine: Local and Global Histories" is a historical study by Alison Bashford that examines how quarantine practices have shaped public health, borders, and global mobility from the early modern period to the twentieth century.
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A.
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, expert-driven overview of how pandemics emerge, spread, and can be controlled, written for a general audience by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist Peter C. Doherty.
-
B.
Infections and Inequalities
"Infections and Inequalities" is a seminal book by physician-anthropologist Paul Farmer that examines how poverty, social injustice, and global power imbalances shape the distribution and treatment of infectious diseases.
-
C.
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox is a nonfiction book recounting the global campaign to eliminate smallpox, written from the perspective of one of the key public health leaders who helped achieve its eradication.
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D.
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease is a detailed case study examining the U.S. government's 1976 swine flu vaccination program and the complexities of public health decision-making under uncertainty.
-
E.
The Great Influenza
The Great Influenza is John M. Barry’s historical account of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, examining its scientific, medical, and social impact on the modern world.
- F. None of above. chosen
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