Panel Presentations
Event Title
Authors
Christopher J. Dellana '14, Gettysburg College
Location
Science Center 300
Session
Globalization Studies Honors Panel
Start Time
5-3-2014 1:15 PM
End Time
5-3-2014 2:30 PM
Supervising Faculty Member
Monica Ogra
Department
Globalization Studies
Description
Before man was exchanging goods and ideas, he was exchanging germs. As such, the spread of infectious disease constitutes the first truly global phenomenon and, therefore, marks the beginnings—primitive though they may have been—of what today we have finally termed ‘globalization.’ The global spread of disease, then, proves that globalization is not new and that its origins were the result of a different narrative than the ones we read from globalization theorists; it further demonstrates that the modern conception of the phenomenon is only now so well recognized because the accelerated and efficient processes that inform its daily activities have heightened our conscious acknowledgement of its existence.
Document Type
Student Research Paper
Included in
International and Area Studies Commons, International Public Health Commons, Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons
Human Disease - Unintended Globalization
Science Center 300
Before man was exchanging goods and ideas, he was exchanging germs. As such, the spread of infectious disease constitutes the first truly global phenomenon and, therefore, marks the beginnings—primitive though they may have been—of what today we have finally termed ‘globalization.’ The global spread of disease, then, proves that globalization is not new and that its origins were the result of a different narrative than the ones we read from globalization theorists; it further demonstrates that the modern conception of the phenomenon is only now so well recognized because the accelerated and efficient processes that inform its daily activities have heightened our conscious acknowledgement of its existence.