Framing animals as epidemic villains : histories of non-human disease vectors / Christos Lynteris, editor.
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 b...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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| Series: | Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.