Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History (Book)
Title: Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History
Author: Katherine Randall
Author: E. Thomas Ewing
Abstract: This volume of original essays explores the power of network thinking and analysis for humanities research. Contributing authors are all scholars whose research focuses on a medical history topic—from the Black Death in fourteenth-century Provence to psychiatric hospitals in twentieth-century Alabama. The chapters take readers through a variety of situations in which scholars must determine if network analysis is right for their research; and, if the answer is yes, what the possibilities are for implementation. Along the way, readers will find practical tips on identifying an appropriate network to analyze, finding the best way to apply network analysis, and choosing the right tools for data visualization. All the chapters in this volume grew out of the 2018 Viral Networks workshop, hosted by the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine (NIH), funded by the Office of Digital Humanities of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and organized by Virginia Tech.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://publishing.vt.edu/site/books/10.21061/viral-networks/
Access Model: Open Access
Publisher: VT Publishing
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9781949373011
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Viral Networks Website (Web Resource)
Title: Viral Networks Website
Author: E. Thomas Ewing
Abstract: Viral Networks: An Advanced Workshop in Medical History and Digital Humanities will bring together scholars from the field of medical history whose research shows particular promise for making innovative use of methods, tools, and data from the digital humanities. Viral Networks will combine a face-to-face workshop in January 2018 at the National Institutes of Health with structured virtual editing activities that produce innovative scholarship. Workshop participants include twelve Contributing Scholars, each producing a chapter of original research; Consulting Scholars who are experts in network analysis; and an Advisory Board who will coordinate stages of collaborative writing, peer review, collective editing, and final publication in an open access and freely available scholarly platform.
Year: 2017
Primary URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20180810104532/http://viralnetworks.org/

From Postcard to Book Cover: Illustrating Connections between Medical History and Digital Humanities (Article)
Title: From Postcard to Book Cover: Illustrating Connections between Medical History and Digital Humanities
Author: E. Thomas Ewing
Author: Katherine Randall
Author: Jeffrey S. Reznick
Abstract: This article examines the process by which a printed postcard, sent by a nurse training program as a recruitment device in the early twentieth century, became the cover of an edited volume, Viral Networks, produced simultaneously in print and electronic open access forms by Virginia Tech Publishing. The article was co-authored by Jeff Reznick, whose History of Medicine Division hosted the Viral Networks workshop, with Tom Ewing and Katie Randall, who co-edited the volume. The workshop and volume were supported by a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://jmla.pitt.edu/ojs/jmla/article/view/745
Access Model: Open access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of the Medical Library Association
Publisher: Medical Library Association

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