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Record Nr.

UNINA9910545197703321

Autore

Kelly Ann H

Titolo

The anthropology of epidemics / / edited by Ann H. Kelly, Frédéric Keck and Christos Lynteris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2019

London : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

9780429868078

0429868073

9780429461897

0429461895

9780429868085

0429868081

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 pages)

Collana

Routledge studies in health and medical anthropology

Classificazione

SOC002000

Disciplina

614.4

Soggetti

Epidemics

Medical anthropology

Public health - Anthropological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 whilst at the same time functioning as catalysts of shifts and ruptures as regards human/non-human relations. Bearing a particular mark on subject areas and questions which have recently come to shape developments in anthropological thinking, the volume brings epidemics to the forefront of anthropological debate, as an exemplary arena for social scientific study and analysis.