... . Bustamante Carlos D. De La Vega Francisco M. Burchard Esteban G. 2011 . “ Genomics for the World .” Nature 475 , no. 2 : 163 – 65 . 10.1038/475163a . Caduff Carlo . 2012 . “ The Semiotics of Security: Infectious Disease Research and the Biopolitics of Informational Bodies...

..., with public funding and little oversight. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NAIAD) (the branch of NIH directly responsible for influenza research), said in response to the question of why...

... of vulnerability surrounding issues like emerging infectious diseases, climate change, or terrorism ( Aradau 2010; Grove 2014; Fearnley 2008) . Climate change vulnerabilities, like other hard-to-anticipate emergent threats, can be viewed as a constitutive process of urbanization to the extent that they bear...

... biomedical narrative deterritorialization epidemiology infectious disease tuberculosis Tuberculosis disease seems almost engineered to capitalize on the gaps and shortfalls in public health systems. The microorganism can lay dormant in the body for years, may take a long time before it manifests...

...: Towards a Reinterpretation of the Tuberculosis Sanatorium .” In Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease , edited by Condrau Flurin Worboys Michael , 72 – 99 . Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press . Daston Lorraine . 1991 . “ Marvelous...

.... It is a book of theory and parody, bitching and carping, memory and critique. Both books are about peculiar intersections. Writing of waking from a dream to find himself in the Infectious Diseases Ward of the Royal Brisbane Hospital, Michaels muses...

..., getting tested, isolating themselves in case of a positive result, and notifying anybody else with whom they themselves have been in contact while infectious. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world responded with lockdowns to contain the spread of the disease...

... and deadly infectious disease. In announcing its $7.1 billion pandemic preparedness program the following month, the Bush adminis- tration declared avian flu an urgent matter of national security.2 This grouping of various types of possible catastrophe under a shared rubric of “security threats...

... about people's worldviews. “In the midst of a lethal health crisis involving a highly infectious disease, Americans encountered their ideological adversaries in public and debated germ theories, what counts as a scientific fact, who belongs to the body politic, the boundaries of freedom...

... leading infectious disease specialist confirmed that “in 4 5 8 theory, obviously, the doctor cannot condemn a drug user patient not to take Will to Live medication . . . but the fact is that the homeless patient does not return for routine ambulatorial checkups. So what I do...

... and rapidity with which people, ideas and infectious diseases can now travel throughout the world, and to the extent to which any one country’s eco- nomic welfare depends upon the behaviour of persons and authorities outside its own...

.... 2020 ). 13. See Sengupta 2020 for an account of the effects of wildfire smoke on children, and Kobziar and Thompson 2020 for research on infectious wildfire smoke. 14. Some also speculate that the increased prevalence of viruses that jump from animal species to humans (like 2019’s...

... of an infectious agent or its toxic products to a susceptible host.56 Infectious agents must be present for these diseases to set in (i.e., they are necessary causes of individual cases), but their spread depends largely on social conditions.57 Non...

.... However, biomedicine has proved by far to be the most efficacious among medical systems in terms of the numbers of people effectively cured of infectious disease. But, as we all know, things are now at a turning point because of the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The global move to aging societies...

... 2. For a collection of quotes from Mbeki’s public comments on the connection between the HIV virus and AIDS, the related effi cacy of antiretroviral drugs in treatment of the disease, and his defense of the public health policy of his regime, go...

..., if not cured. Polio and many other infectious diseases have almost been completely eliminated. So these changes are not nothing, despite the fact that they often get overlooked in the rhetoric of revolutionary science. They are fundamental transformations in what it means to be a human being today. TM...

... of the disease, AIDS, and of Haitians’ “(literally bloody) voodoo practices” ( De Ferrari 2015 : 208) was and is an anxiety around the conditions under which the impoverished, diseased Haitian body has been brought into a common sphere of existence with First World US-American bodies, notably, as a direct...

... nearly every place that people gathered: A Dollar Store. A Staples. An airplane. An Uber. A nail salon. A restaurant. A public park. Each one shows something remarkable and surprising: in the midst of a lethal health crisis involving a highly infectious disease, Americans encountered their ideological...

... third-largest city, where the city government was approaching outbreaks of crime and violence as if they were emerging infectious diseases. Based on this model, Mockus set up a system for analyzing existing crime data to identify risk factors that could be used to predict when and where future violence...

... looks are infectious. The fury flies from face to face, and the disease is no sooner seen than caught. They who in a better situation of mind have beheld a multitude under the power of this passion, have owned that they saw in the countenance of men something more ghastly and ter- rible...