Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains Histories of Non-Human Disease Vectors /
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...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Infectious Animals and Epidemic Blame, Christos Lynteris
- Chapter 1. Vermin Landscapes: Suffolk, England, Shaped by Plague, Rat and Flea 1906-1920, Karen Sayer
- Chapter 2. Tarbagan's Winter Lair: Framing Drivers of Plague Persistence in Inner Asia, Christos Lynteris
- Chapter 3. To Kill or not to Kill? Negotiating Life, Death, and One Health in the Context of Dog-Mediated Rabies Control in Colonial and Independent India, Deborah Nadal
- Chapter 4. Tiger Mosquitoes from Ross to Gates, Maurits Meerwijk
- Chapter 5. A Vector in The (Re)Making: A History of Aedes aegypti as Mosquitoes that Transmit Diseases in Brazil, Gabriel Lopes and Luísa Reis-Castro
- Chapter 6. Contesting the (Super)natural Origins of Ebola in Macenta, Guinea: Biomedical and Popular Approaches, Séverine Thys
- Chapter 7. Zika Outbreak in Brazil: In Times of Political and Scientific Uncertainties Mosquitoes Can be Stronger than a Country, Gustavo Corrêa Matta , Lenir Nascimento da Silva, Elaine Teixeira Rabello, and Carolina de Oliveira Nogueira
- 8 Postscript: Epidemic Villains and the Ecologies of Nuisance, Frédéric Keck.
