Format:
1 Online-Ressource (260 pages)
ISBN:
9783030267957
Series Statement:
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History Ser.
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Infectious Animals and Epidemic Blame -- Vermin and Noxious Animals -- Disease Spreaders -- Disease Reservoirs -- Visualising Animals as Epidemic Villains -- 2 Vermin Landscapes: Suffolk, England, Shaped by Plague, Rat and Flea (1906-1920) -- Introduction -- The Scientific Landscape -- Rats, Fleas and Plague -- Conclusion -- 3 Tarbagan's Winter Lair: Framing Drivers of Plague Persistence in Inner Asia -- Framing Siberian Marmots -- Imaging Siberian Marmots -- The Question of Hibernation -- Wu Liande's Hibernation Experiments -- The Question of Disease Persistence -- 4 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 -- Introduction -- Early Theories and Practices of Rabies Control -- Dogs, Rabies, and Colonialism -- New India, Old Problems -- Stray, Pariahs, and Street Dogs -- One Health for Rabies -- Conclusion -- 5 Tiger Mosquitoes from Ross to Gates -- Tiger Mosquitoes -- The Lion and the Gnat -- The Chief Enemy of Mankind -- Man-Hunting Mosquitoes -- It's Murder, She Says -- Dengue -- Conclusion -- 6 A Vector in the (Re)Making: A History of Aedes aegypti as Mosquitoes that Transmit Diseases in Brazil -- Introduction -- Yellow Fever: The 'Scourge of the Tropics' and the Quest for 'National Integration' -- Dengue: Social Inequalities and the Transition to Redemocratisation -- Zika: Austerity Measures and the Struggle for 'Nenhum Direito a Menos' (Not One Right Less) -- Conclusion: Viruses, Vectors, Villains -- 7 Contesting the (Super)Natural Origins of Ebola in Macenta, Guinea: Biomedical and Popular Approaches -- Carriers and Their Transgressions -- Macenta, the Epicentre -- Origin and Chain of Transmission According to a Biomedical Model.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030267940
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030267940
Language:
English
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