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" Framing animals as epidemic villains : "
Christos Lynteris, editor.
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862752
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Framing animals as epidemic villains : : histories of non-human disease vectors /\ Christos Lynteris, editor.
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Cham :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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, ©2019
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Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history
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1 online resource :: illustrations
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3030267954
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: 9783030267957
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9783030267940
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Includes index.
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; 1 Introduction: Infectious Animals and Epidemic Blame; Vermin and Noxious Animals; Disease Spreaders; Disease Reservoirs; Visualising Animals as Epidemic Villains; 2 Vermin Landscapes: Suffolk, England, Shaped by Plague, Rat and Flea (1906-1920); Introduction; The Scientific Landscape; Rats, Fleas and Plague; Conclusion; 3 Tarbagan's Winter Lair: Framing Drivers of Plague Persistence in Inner Asia; Framing Siberian Marmots; Imaging Siberian Marmots; The Question of Hibernation; Wu Liande's Hibernation Experiments
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6 A Vector in the (Re)Making: A History of Aedes aegypti as Mosquitoes that Transmit Diseases in BrazilIntroduction; Yellow Fever: The 'Scourge of the Tropics' and the Quest for 'National Integration'; Dengue: Social Inequalities and the Transition to Redemocratisation; Zika: Austerity Measures and the Struggle for 'Nenhum Direito a Menos' (Not One Right Less); Conclusion: Viruses, Vectors, Villains; 7 Contesting the (Super)Natural Origins of Ebola in Macenta, Guinea: Biomedical and Popular Approaches; Carriers and Their Transgressions; Macenta, the Epicentre
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Origin and Chain of Transmission According to a Biomedical ModelOrigin and Transmission Chain According to an 'Animist' Model; Whose Knowledge Counts?; 8 Zika Outbreak in Brazil: In Times of Political and Scientific Uncertainties Mosquitoes Can Be Stronger Than a Country; Introduction: Zika Outbreak-A Critical Landscape; Mosquitoes: A Global Threat?; Zika, Global Health: A Mosquito-Centred Policy; Zika and Microcephaly: The Biopolitics of a Powerful Mosquito; Mosquitoes Can Be Stronger Than a Country; 9 Postscript: Epidemic Villains and the Ecologies of Nuisance; Index
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The Question of Disease Persistence4 To Kill or Not to Kill? Negotiating Life, Death, and One Health in the Context of Dog-Mediated Rabies Control in Colonial and Independent India; Introduction; Early Theories and Practices of Rabies Control; Dogs, Rabies, and Colonialism; New India, Old Problems; Stray, Pariahs, and Street Dogs; One Health for Rabies; Conclusion; 5 Tiger Mosquitoes from Ross to Gates; Tiger Mosquitoes; The Lion and the Gnat; The Chief Enemy of Mankind; Man-Hunting Mosquitoes; It's Murder, She Says; Dengue; Conclusion
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This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases are one of the central concerns of global health. The volume critically examines the ways in which animals have come to be framed as 'epidemic villains' since the turn of the nineteenth century. Providing epistemological and social histories of non-human epidemic blame, as well as ethnographic perspectives on its recent manifestations, the essays explore this cornerstone of modern epidemiology and public health alongside its continuing importance in today's world. Covering diverse regions, the book argues that framing animals as spreaders and reservoirs of infectious diseases - from plague to rabies to Ebola - is an integral aspect not only to scientific breakthroughs but also to the ideological and biopolitical apparatus of modern medicine. As the first book to consider the impact of the image of non-human disease hosts and vectors on medicine and public health, it offers a major contribution to our understanding of human-animal interaction under the shadow of global epidemic threat.--
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Animals as carriers of disease.
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Zoonoses.
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Animals as carriers of disease.
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Zoonoses.
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614.5/6
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RA639.F73 2019eb
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Lynteris, Christos
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