Edna Bonhomme updates us on the progress of her research concerning the history of plague in North Africa.

This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise.

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As research on the early modern period increasingly shows, bubonic plague played a formative role in the making of state policies and medical practice, and concern over plague created new connections between different regions of the Mediterranean. In this episode, Edna Bonhomme joins us again to talk about her research on plague in North Africa, its relationship with the issue of the global slave trade, and the ways in which experimenting with plague became a practice among Europeans residing in 18th-century Egypt.

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