The Anthropology of Epidemics (Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology)

Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a transformational impact on social life whilst at the same time functioning as catalysts of shifts and ruptures as regards human/non-human relations. Bearing a particular mark on subject areas and questions which have recently come to shape developments in anthropological thinking, the volume brings epidemics to the forefront of anthropological debate, as an exemplary arena for social scientific study and analysis. Contents 6 List of figures 8 Notes on contributors 9 Introduction: the anthropology of epidemics • Frédéric Keck, Ann H. Kelly, and Christos Lynteris 14 1 Simulations of epidemics: techniques of global health and neo-liberal government • Frédéric Keck and Guillaume Lachenal 38 2 Great anticipations • Carlo Caduff 56 3 What is an epidemic emergency? • Andrew Lakoff 72 4 Migrant birds or migrant labour? Money, mobility, and the emergence of poultry epidemics in Vietnam • Natalie Porter 83 5 Photography, zoonosis and epistemic suspension after the end of epidemics • Christos Lynteris 97 6 The multispecies infrastructure of zoonosis • Genese Marie Sodikoff 115 7 Complexity, anthropology, and epidemics • Hannah Brown 134 8 Pandemic publics: how epidemics transform social and political collectives of public health • Ruth Prince 148 9 Of what are epidemics the symptom? Speed, interlinkage, and infrastructure in molecular anthropology • Vinh-Kim Nguyen 167 Index 191