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A Digital Role-Playing Game for the History of Medicine
- Project Director(s):
- Lisa Rosner, Laura Zucconi
- Author(s):
- Lisa Rosner
- Date:
- 2013
- Group(s):
- Data Rescue
- Subject(s):
- Science--Philosophy, Technology--Philosophy, Science, Technology, History, Medicine--Philosophy, Medicine
- Item Type:
- White paper
- Institution:
- Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
- Tag(s):
- NEH White papers, Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, NEH Digital Humanities, History and philosophy of science and technology, History and philosophy of medicine
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6PQ0K
- Abstract:
- Edward Jenner's 1798 smallpox vaccine was a breakthrough against an epidemic disease, and its subsequent role as a public health measure demonstrates the interplay of disease, patient, healers, and social institutions in medical history. Our project, Pox and the City: A Digital Role-Playing Game for the History of Medicine, explores these complex interrelationships in a format that will enhance existing humanities teaching and enable historians of medicine to reach new audiences. The game, a collaboration between historians of medicine and Serious Games specialists, can be played as a smallpox doctor, a virus, or a patient. The grant will be used to create and test the first level of the game for each of these characters. Pox and the City makes use of the world-renowned historical collection of books, ephemera, images, and artifacts held by the College of Physicians in Philadelphia. The outcome will be an open-source, Flash-based RPG for use in web-based and GeoDome applications.
- Notes:
- The development of a game-based simulation for exploring the early history of the development and history of the smallpox vaccination.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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