Anthropology's response to the West African Ebola epidemic was one of the most rapid and
expansive anthropological interventions to a global health emergency in the discipline's …

Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet
Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk or yogurt to improve gastrointestinal …

After experiencing the SARS outbreak in 2003, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all
invested in various techniques to mitigate future pandemics involving myriad cross-species …

In recent years anthropologists have shown an increasing interest in 'zoonoses': diseases
naturally transmitted from nonhuman animals to humans, such as anthrax, brucellosis …

A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological
modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities. In Epidemic Illusions …

Background The West African Ebola epidemic has demonstrated that the existing range of
medical and epidemiological responses to emerging disease outbreaks is insufficient …

This chapter focuses on emerging infectious diseases, and the result is a tendency to
attempt to format the lives of food animals in particular ways that conform to global health …

This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the 'next
pandemic'and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiation …

This paper draws together animal and mobility studies to develop the concept of animals'
mobilities. It identifies the parallel intellectual interests in these fields that provide the …

A focus on zoonotic urbanisation challenges existing conceptions of global urbanism. In this
article I consider how a modified urban political ecology framework might help to illuminate …