Framing animals as epidemic villains : histories of non-human disease vectors /: histories of non-human disease vectors. ([2019])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Framing animals as epidemic villains : histories of non-human disease vectors /: histories of non-human disease vectors. ([2019])
- Main Title:
- Framing animals as epidemic villains : histories of non-human disease vectors
- Further Information:
- Note: Christos Lynteris, editor.
- Editors:
- Lynteris, Christos
- Contents:
- 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 Persistence4 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 BrazilIntroduction; 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);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 Persistence4 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 BrazilIntroduction; 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 ModelOrigin and Transmission Chain According to an 'Animist' Model; Whose Knowledge Counts?; 8 Zika Outbreak in Brazil: In Times of Political and Scientific Uncertainties Mosquitoes Can Be Stronger Than a Country; Introduction: Zika Outbreak-A Critical Landscape; Mosquitoes: A Global Threat?; Zika, Global Health: A Mosquito-Centred Policy; Zika and Microcephaly: The Biopolitics of a Powerful Mosquito; Mosquitoes Can Be Stronger Than a Country; 9 Postscript: Epidemic Villains and the Ecologies of Nuisance; Index … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Copyright Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations
- Subjects:
- 614.5/6
Animals as carriers of disease
Zoonoses
Electronic books
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783030267957
3030267954 - Related ISBNs:
- 9783030267940
- Notes:
- Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 16, 2019).
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.464598
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