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During the 2020-22 COVID-19 pandemic, more than 30 leading STM publishers have committed to making all of their COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications immediately accessible. Brill's collection of books and articles on relevant topics such as public health, distance learning, crisis research, has been made available for free between April 2020 and April 2022. Below you find an overview of the selected titles.
“The Black Death in Iran, according to Iranian Historical Accounts from the Fourteenth through Fifteenth Centuries”
Authors: Ahmad Fazlinejad and Farajollah Ahmadi
In: Journal of Persianate Studies
“The Impact of the Black Death on Iranian Trade (1340s-1450s A.D.)”
Authors: Ahmad Fazlinejad and Farajollah Ahmadi
In: Iran and the Caucasus

 
Epidemics and crisis research past and present
“The Black Death in Russia: Its Effects Upon Urban Labor”
Author: Lawrence N. Langer
In: Russian History


 
The Effect of Multiple Vectors on Arbovirus Transmission
Author: Cynthia C. Lord
In: Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution
“The Second Plague Pandemic and Its Recurrences in the Middle East: 1347-1894”
Author: Michael W. Dols
In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient

 
“Medicine in Practice: European Influences on the Ottoman Medical Habitat”
Author: Ebru Boyar
In: Turkish Historical Review


 
Medizin und Krieg: Deutschland
1914 – 1924

Author: Wolfgang U. Eckart


 
Illness in Context
Editors: Knut Stene-Johansen and Frederik Tygstrup

 
“Invisible Environmental History: Infectious Disease in Late Antiquity”
Author: Kyle Harper
In: Environment and Society in the Long Late Antiquity


 
“Pathology and Epidemics”
Author: Janet Starkey
In: The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad


 
“The Imminent Threat of Tropical Viruses: Lessons from the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in Africa”
Author: Xiaohui Shen
In: Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment, Volume 9


 
“West Africa’s Ebola Pandemic: Toward Effective Multilateral Responses to Health Crises”
Authors: Obinna Franklin Ifediora and Kwesi Aning
In: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations


Watch the video here


 
Strategies for containment
 
Children's Health and Children's Rights
Editor: Michael Freeman


 
Cutting Through the Surface: Philosophical Approaches to Bioethics
Editors: Tuija Takala,
Peter Herissone-Kelly and
Søren Holm


 
“Migration and Health in Asia”
Author: Rachel Safman
In: Asian Journal of Social Science


 
“IGOs in Crisis? Or New Opportunities to Demonstrate Responsibility?”
Author: Gabrielle Marceau
In: International Organizations Law Review


 
“The Healthcare Providers-Patients Relationship and State Obligations in Times of Public Health Emergency”
Authors: Gloria C. Nwafor and
Anthony O. Nwafor
In: African Journal of Legal Studies


 
“Negotiation in an Insecure World”
Author: Bertram Spector
In: International Negotiation


 
Perspectives on Wellbeing: A Reader
Editors: Sue Vella, Ruth Falzon and Andrew Azzopardi


 
Building solidarity and resilience in times of crisis
Conceptualizing Friendship in Time and Place
Editors: Carla Risseeuw and
Marlein van Raalte


 
The Resilience of Hope
Editors: Janette McDonald and
Andrea M. Stephenson


 
What Happened? Re-presenting Traumas, Uncovering Recoveries
Editors: Elspeth McInnes and
Danielle Schaub


 
Topography of Trauma: Fissures, Disruptions and Transfigurations
Editors: Danielle Schaub,
Jacqueline Linder, Kori Novak, Stephanie Y. Tam and Claudio Zanini


 
“Resilience in Post Disaster Societies: From Crisis to Development”
Authors: Caroline Brassard
and Anne Raffin
In: Asian Journal of Social Science


 
Home-schooling and distance learning
Identity, Learning and Support in Virtual Environments
Editors: Sharon Tettegah
and Cynthia Calongne


 
Re-imagining the Creative University for the 21st Century
Editors: Tina (A.C.) Besley
and Michael A. Peters


 
Working and Learning in Times of Uncertainty: Challenges to Adult, Professional and Vocational Education
Editors: Sandra Bohlinger,
Ulrika Haake,
Christian Helms Jørgensen,
Hanna Toiviainen and Andreas Wallo


 
Forging Solidarity: Popular Education at Work
Editors: Astrid von Kotze and
Shirley Walters


 
Global Healing
Literature, Advocacy, Care
Author: Karen Laura Thornber


Author in Focus: Karen Thornber, author of the recently published Global Healing, on what narratives teach us about the way we look at illness and healing.
See the interview here.
Littérature et sida, alors et encore
Editors: Alessandro Badin,
Stefano Genetti, Fabio Libasci and Jean-Marie Roulin



 
When the Analogy Breaks:
Historical References in Flemish News Media at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Bram De Ridder
In: Journal of Applied History

Listen to the podcast here


 
The Second Most Difficult Job in the World: Reflections on covid-19
Author: Jan Klabbers
In: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

 
International Law Perspectives on Cruise Ships and covid-19
Author: Natalie Klein
In: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies
 
Un-remembered but Unforgettable: The ‘Spanish Flu’ Pandemic
In: The First World War and Health
Author: Daniel Flecknoe

 
Permeable Walls: Historical Perspectives on Hospital and Asylum Visiting
Editors: Graham Mooney
and Jonathan Reinarz

 
Do Civil Liberties Really Matter During Pandemics?
Approaches to Coronavirus
Disease (covid-19)
Author: Conrad Nyamutata
In: International Human Rights Law Review
 
Statement on the Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights
: Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
In: International Human Rights Law Review

 
A History of Population Health:
Rise and Fall of Disease in Europe
Author: Johan P. Mackenbach
The covid-19 Crisis: A Challenge for Numeric Comparative Law and Governance
Author: Aurelia Colombi Ciacch
In: European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance


 
Is International Surrogacy the Lark’s Glimmer?: When Covid-19 Reveals the Legal Insecurity of Surrogacy Use
Authors: Gaëlle Deharo and
Allane Madanamoothoo
In: European Journal of Health Law



 
International Human Rights Law and the Response to the covid-19 Pandemic
By: Sarah Joseph
In: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies


 
Prevent, Respond, Cooperate: States’ Due Diligence Duties vis-à-vis the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Antonio Coco and Talita de Souza Dias
In: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

 
The Legal Response to Pandemics: The Strengths and Weaknesses of the International Health Regulations
By: Gian Luca Burci
In: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies


 
The covid-19 Infodemic and Online Platforms as Intermediary Fiduciaries under International Law
By: Barrie Sander and Nicholas Tsagourias
In: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

 
Apocalypse Now?  Initial Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic for the Governance of Existential and Global Catastrophic Risks
By: Hin-Yan Liu, Kristian Lauta, and Matthijs Maas
In: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

 
COVID-19 and the Role of the Security Council as Global Health Peacekeeper
Author: Boris Kondoch
In: Journal of International Peacekeeping


 
The Forum on Science Diplomacy
In: The Hague Journal of Diplomacy



 
The UN @75: The Future of Partnership and Multilateralism
Author: Gro Harlem Brundtland
In: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
Virtual Criminal Justice and Good Governance during Covid-19
Author: Adam McCann
In: European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance

 
Priorities, Partners, Politics: The WHO’s Mandate beyond the Crisis
Author: Tine Hanrieder
In: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
The WHO and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Less Reform, More Innovation
Authors: Kelley Lee and
Julianne Piper
In: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
The Rights of Elders in Ireland during COVID-19
Authors: Katharina Ó Cathaoir
and Ida Gundersby Rognlien
 

 
Contribution of Business Entities in the Fight against COVID-19 in South Africa
Authors: Samkelo Bala and
Simon M. Kang’ethe
In: Perspectives on Global Development and Technology
 
Psychosocial Impacts of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic in Zimbabwe: Citizens’ Perspective
Authors: Shingirai P. Mbulayi,
Abigail Makuyana, and
Simon M. Kang’ethe
In: Perspectives on Global Development and Technology
Capitalism Has No Clothes: the Unexpected Shock of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Authors: Jaime F. Cárdenas-García, Bruno Soria De Mesa, and
Diego Romero Castro
In: Perspectives on Global Development and Technology
 

 
The International Journal of Children's Rights Volume 29, No. 2

 

Featured article
Comparative Global Humanities Now
Author: Wiebke Denecke
In: Journal of World Literature
 

 
Online Book Fairs during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The experience of Vietnam
Authors: Hoang Nguyen,
Hoang Viet Nguyen, Ngoc Bao Le,
Thi Thu Thuy Pham, and
Ninh Nguyen
In: Logos
Egypt’s COVID-19 Response through a Gender Lens
Author: Nora Salem
In: Arab Law Quarterly

 
Authors: Auke-Florian Hiemstra,
Liselotte Rambonnet,
Barbara Gravendeel
,
and Menno Schilthuizen
In: Animal Biology
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced people indoors and has moved many of our interactions to take place online. Diplomatic interactions are no exception.
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
In: International Human Rights Law Review