
Ecologies of Disease Control
Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective
University of Pittsburgh Press
Published on 29. April 2025
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-8229-4848-3 (ISBN)
Description
A new volume in the University of Pittsburgh Press Histories and Ecologies of Health series
Reviews / Votes
A rich set of essays through which disease histories are 'ecologized' for a new generation. Long gone is single and simple causation. Rather, the authors here explore centuries of hosts, zones, routes, mutations, herds, webs, and entanglements. The fresh embedding of 'ecologies' and 'environmentality' in histories of disease is one the few positive outcomes of COVID-19. -- Alison Bashford, author of Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life on Earth Ecologies of Disease Control ultimately underscores the historical and structural implementation and limits of applying ecological thinking to disease control at the local and global scales. Collectively, the authors demonstrate that health security and the ecological framework exist within a broader historical terrain and continuity. Medical and scientific researchers cannot afford to forget that history if they truly want to prevent and control disease. * H-Net *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8229-4848-3 (9780822948483)
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Persons
Carolin Mezes (Editor)
Carolin Mezes is a postdoctoral fellow at Bielefeld University.
Sven Opitz (Editor)
Sven Opitz is professor of political sociology at Philipps University Marburg.
Andrea Wiegeshoff (Editor)
Andrea Wiegeshoff is an affiliated researcher in the Department of Modern History at the University of Marburg and an adjunct lecturer at the universities of St. Gallen and Bonn.
Carolin Mezes is a postdoctoral fellow at Bielefeld University.
Sven Opitz (Editor)
Sven Opitz is professor of political sociology at Philipps University Marburg.
Andrea Wiegeshoff (Editor)
Andrea Wiegeshoff is an affiliated researcher in the Department of Modern History at the University of Marburg and an adjunct lecturer at the universities of St. Gallen and Bonn.