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Book Forum — The Viral Network: A Pathography of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic...
In this Book Forum, our commentators respond to Theresa MacPhail’s provocative ethnography of influenza research and public health response, The Viral Network: A Pathography of the H1N1 Influenza...
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Diagnosing Failure: The Post-Hoc Report as an Administrative Epilogue by...
The World Health Organization recently released its long-awaited final report on the organization’s response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic. The report opens by explaining that, however tragic the epidemic...
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Andrew Lakoff’s Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency by Christos...
Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency Andrew Lakoff University of California Press, 2017. 240 pages. Let us be frank: it is hard to think preparedness in the medical humanities without...
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Africa and the Epidemiological Imagination by Marissa Mika
In early September we hosted a workshop on Africa and the Epidemiological Imagination at University College London’s Institute of Advanced Studies’ Common Ground. The workshop was sponsored by the...
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Patient Zero and the Making of a Myth: History as an Archaeology of the...
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic Richard A. McKay University of Chicago Press, 2017, 400 pages “An innocent he was not. He eventually told health investigators that during the 1970s...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been called “a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco” (Ioannides, 2020), while the editor of the Lancet has declared that “the handling of the COVID-19 crisis in the UK is the...
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Go Suppress Yourself | A Chronicle by Anthony Stavrianakis
In December 2019, reports emerged of a pneumonia of unknown origin in the city of Wuhan, China. A week into 2020, a novel pathogen was identified–– “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2”...
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What is the object of epidemiological interventions during an epidemic? Is it the virus, the disease, the fear, the chaos, or the threat to security? And what is the objective of those interventions?...
View ArticleLudwik Fleck where are you now that we need you? Covid-19 and the genesis of...
Tests for Covid-19 and the politics of big numbers We are incessantly flooded with data on the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic. WHO and the Johns Hopkins coronavirus resource provide information...
View ArticleMemorializing Death in an Age of Mass Mortality: Keywords of Covid-19 by...
How do we remember death when it constitutes our landscape? In an age of ubiquitous mortality—not only pandemic deaths, but also deaths from meteorological disasters, deaths of migrants seeking refuge...
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