...Kelly L. Bezio Abstract This essay explores the potential for literary history to be useful as a part of epidemiological sleuthing. It considers how an imperative to employ social determinants of health frameworks incites movement away from epidemiological plots, particularly the forward trajectory...

...-century novels—Daniel Venegas’s Adventures of Don Chipote , Américo Paredes’s George Washington Gómez , and Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero —it adds another layer of historical nuance to studies of Latinx literature by demonstrating the profound, pervasive influence that epidemiological...

...Jerry Zee Abstract This essay is an experiment in figuring the pandemic through its reconfigurations of Chineseness. It departs from the Sinophobic cliché that conflates race, geopolitics, and epidemiology: the “China Virus” and its cloud of cognate slurs. It considers the slogan-slur as both...

... security," which involved the protection of the national population against regularly occurring internal threats through increasingly specialized sub­ fields such as epidemiology, demography, and s ta tis tic s .4 This biopolitical management at the level of population coincided w ith a striking transform...

... hope. Zee notes in passing that the association of Asian bodies in the Americas with disease has a long history. In her essay “Considering Epidemiology’s Need for Literary History,” Kelly L. Bezio attends to a parallel history starting with the observation that many studies have shown a “higher...

... educators trying to explain how narrative can have L e n n a r d j . D avis / D avid b . Mo r r is 19 1 therapeutic im plications. The list o f fields doing de-facto biocultures is enormous. These include: public health, medical education, medical humanities, bioethics, crim inal justice, epidemiology...

.... But there were very few faculty, aside from Beth Seymour and a couple of people in epidemiology and public health. Then, to add profound insult to injury, new language was inserted into the contracts issued to our non-tenure-line (NTL) faculty: a provision that the contract could be terminated on twelve...

... Infectious Diseases Dissemination through Online Role-Playing Games .” Epidemiology 18 , no. 2 ( 2007 ): 260 – 61 . Bogost Ian . Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2010 . Bogost Ian . “ Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power...

... racialized identities, paranoid styles of governmentality, and epidemiological forms of statecraft. 19 This scholarship has mainly attended to the practices of immigration restriction, a phenomenon of the 1880s on. A much older branch of port-city governance was customs (subsequently melded with excise...

... and Mittm an. 34 "Embodiment" is a term the public health scientist Nancy Krieger uses to talk about the ways "our bodies tell stories about - and cannot be studied divorced from - the conditions of our existence." Krieger, Nancy. "Embodiment: a conceptual glossary for epidemiology." Journal o f...