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Titre(s) : Framing animals as epidemic villains [Texte électronique] : histories of non-human disease vectors / Christos Lynteris, editor
Publication : Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée
Collection : Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history
Lien à la collection : Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history (Online)
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
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
La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : XX-247 p.
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Lynteris, Christos. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Vecteurs de maladies -- Société
Zoonoses -- Histoire
Maladies infectieuses -- Chez les animaux -- Société
Relations homme-animal -- Aspect sanitaire
Indice(s) Dewey :
614.560 9 (23e éd.) = Zoonoses (incidence et mesures publiques de prévention) - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783030267940. - ISBN 3030267946. - ISBN 9783030267957. - ISBN 3030267954
EAN 9783030267940
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46643029m
Notice n° :
FRBNF46643029
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Table des matières : 1. Introduction: Infectious animals and epidemic blame / Christos Lynteris ; 2.
Vermin landscapes : Suffolk, England, shaped by plague, rat and flea (1906-1920) /
Karen Sayer ; 3. Tarbagan's winter lair : framing drivers of plague persistence in
Inner Asia / Christos Lynteris ; 4. 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 / Deborah Nadal ; 5. Tiger mosquitoes from Ross to Gates / Maurits Bastiaan
Meerwijk ; 6. A vector in the (re)making : a history of Aedes aegypti as mosquitoes
that transmit diseases in Brazil / Gabriel Lopes and Luísa Reis-Castro ; 7. Contesting
the (super)natural origins of Ebola in Macenta, Guinea : biomedical and popular approaches
/ Séverine Thys ; 8. Zika outbreak in Brazil : in times of political and scientific
uncertainties mosquitoes can be stronger than a country / Gustavo Corrêa Matta, Carolina
de Oliveira Nogueira, Elaine Teixeira Rabello and Lenir de Nascimento Silva ; 9.
Postscript: Epidemic villains and the ecologies of nuisance / Frédéric Keck.
