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Cookie akzeptierenFraming Animals as Epidemic Villains
- Springer International Publishing
- 2019
- Gebunden
- 272 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030267940
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
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