Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains Histories of Non-Human Disease Vectors /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lynteris, Christos (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• Subjects: World history.; Medicine-History.; History.; Medical anthropology.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; History of Medicine.; History of Science.; Medical Anthropology.

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...