Dengue fever is the world's most prevalent mosquito-borne illness, but Alex Nading argues that people in dengue-endemic communities do not always view humans and mosquitoes …
In Model Cases, Monika Krause asks about the concrete material research objects behind shared conversations about classes of objects, periods, and regions in the social sciences …
This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the …
M Wolf - Social Science & Medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Today's era of globalization is characterized by intensified interspecies encounters, growing ecological concerns and the (re-) emergence of infectious diseases, manifesting themselves …
E Sanabria - Cultural Anthropology, 2016 - journal.culanth.org
This article examines what is said to be un/known about obesity and the ways in which attributions of knowledge or ignorance circulate in the field of public health nutrition. Risks …
B Greenhough - cultural geographies, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Epidemics such as HIV/AIDS and H5N1 provide compelling arguments for restricting meetings and minglings between humans and viruses. Geographers have begun to address …
Abstract Evidence from Sierra Leone reveals the significant limitations of big data in disease detection and containment efforts. Early in the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa …
Microbes evolve in complex environments that are often fashioned, in part, by human desires. In a global perspective, public health has played major roles in structuring how …
L McGoey, D Thiel - Economy and Society, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Drawing historical comparisons between the nineteenth century and the present, this paper describes and analyses how an elite section of the global rich, through mega-giving and a re …