Ecologies of disease control spaces of health security in historical perspective / [edited by] Carolin Mezes, Sven Opitz, and Andrea Wiegeshoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mezes, Carolin, editor.

Opitz, Sven, editor.

Wiegeshoff, Andrea, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Histories and ecologies of health.

Histories and ecologies of health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communicable diseases--History.

Communicable diseases.

Disease management--History.

Disease management.

Public health--Environmental aspects.

Public health.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 297 pages ): illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025.

Contents:

Introduction: Ecologies of Disease Control : Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective / Carolin Mezes, Sven Opitz, and Andrea Wiegeshoff

Part I. Ecologies of Disease Control as Ecologies of Power. 1. Securing the Steppes : Soviet Scientific Knowledge, Environment, and Disease, 1920s-1940s / Susan D. Jones ; 2. Plantations and "the Yaws" : Securing Enslaved Motherhood in the Late Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean? / Karina Turmann ; 3. "A Disease of Place" : The Ecological Underpinnings of US Pellagra Research, 1902-1914 / Julia Engelschalt ; 4. Ecologies of Violence in Urban Peripheries during Health Emergencies / Oswaldo Santos Baquero, Sara Cristina Aparecida da Silva, and Júlia Amorim Faria

Part II. Knowing Ecologies? 5. Models, Epidemic Theory, and the Decline of the Environment since the 1900s / Lukas Engelmann ; 6. "Click a Button and . . . See" : The Performative Power of Syndromic Surveillance in Understanding Epidemic Ecologies / Henning Füller ; 7. The Diagnostic Machine : Knowing Disease and Insecurity in Livestock / Steve Hinchliffe

Part III. Thinking with and Rethinking Ecologies of Disease Control. 8. Contacts and Contacts of Contacts : Ebola Rings, Reservoirs, and Frontiers / Ann H. Kelly and Clare Herrick ; 9. Lazily Invasive? Critical Mappings with Aedes Mosquitoes, Humans, and Landscapes / Uli Beisel and Carsten Wergin ; 10. The Underlying Condition as a Disease Ecology : COVID-19 and the Anthropogenic Body of Infection / Hannah Landecker ; 11. The Atmosocial Condition : Ecologies of Breath after COVID-19 / Sven Opitz

Commentary: Ecologies, Diseases, and Security : Embracing Changes? / Melanie A. Kiechle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-275) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822991861

0822991861

Publisher Number:

40032808068

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Restricted for use by site license.