The Anthropology of Epidemics
Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a transformational impact on social life whil...
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| Format: | eBook Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Routledge
2019
Knowledge Unlatched GmbH Taylor and Francis Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis Group |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology |
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| ISBN: | 1138616672, 9781138616677, 9780367581947, 0367581949, 0429868073, 9780429868085, 0429461895, 9780429868078, 0429868081, 9780429868061, 0429868065, 9780429461897 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: the anthropology of epidemics -- 1 Simulations of epidemics: techniques of global health and neo-liberal government -- 2 Great anticipations -- 3 What is an epidemic emergency? -- 4 Migrant birds or migrant labour? Money, mobility, and the emergence of poultry epidemics in Vietnam -- 5 Photography, zoonosis and epistemic suspension after the end of epidemics -- 6 The multispecies infrastructure of zoonosis -- 7 Complexity, anthropology, and epidemics -- 8 Pandemic publics: how epidemics transform social and political collectives of public health -- 9 Of what are epidemics the symptom? Speed, interlinkage, and infrastructure in molecular anthropology -- Index