Negotiating Pandemic Risk: On the Scandalization and Transcultural Transformation of the Swine Flu

Epidemiology, it would seem, lends itself to an interdisciplinary dialogue between medicine and the humanities in particular ways. More than any other medical discipline, perhaps, epidemiology has triggered responses by cultural theorists and cultural historians, and it has done so on two levels and...

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Autores principales: Paul, Norbert W., Banerjee, Mita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7178891/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13875-2_28
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description Epidemiology, it would seem, lends itself to an interdisciplinary dialogue between medicine and the humanities in particular ways. More than any other medical discipline, perhaps, epidemiology has triggered responses by cultural theorists and cultural historians, and it has done so on two levels and on account of two, mutually interrelated reasons. First, epidemiology as a discourse and medical practice has been so seductive to cultural theorists because of the metaphorical potential inherent in what Priscilla Wald has termed the “outbreak narrative”.
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spelling pubmed-71788912020-04-23 Negotiating Pandemic Risk: On the Scandalization and Transcultural Transformation of the Swine Flu Paul, Norbert W. Banerjee, Mita Epidemien und Pandemien in historischer Perspektive Article Epidemiology, it would seem, lends itself to an interdisciplinary dialogue between medicine and the humanities in particular ways. More than any other medical discipline, perhaps, epidemiology has triggered responses by cultural theorists and cultural historians, and it has done so on two levels and on account of two, mutually interrelated reasons. First, epidemiology as a discourse and medical practice has been so seductive to cultural theorists because of the metaphorical potential inherent in what Priscilla Wald has termed the “outbreak narrative”. 2016-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7178891/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13875-2_28 Text en © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2016 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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