1st Edition
Epidemiological Obfuscation Historical and Contemporary Case Studies
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Elucidating Epidemiological Obfuscation
Freya L. Jephcott, Hillary A. Ash, Coreen McGuire
I. Relative Burdens and the Construction of “Inherent” Community Problems
2. Distributed Ignorance, Tricky Cases, and Low Hanging Fruit: Targeting Antibiotics and Treating Bladders
Eleanor Kashouris
3. Categorically Other: The Production of (Non-)Knowledge about Women with AIDS through Surveillance Data Collection and Reporting
Hillary A. Ash
4. Directing and Deflecting Attention in Fronter Nursing Service Bulletins: Public Health and Maternal Health Care in Eastern Kentucky, 1925-1935
Beth Topping
5. Investigating Categories in The Treasury of Human Inheritance
Coreen McGuire
6. #BlackMamasMatter as Critical Race Counterstory: Resisting the Obfuscation of Obstetric Racism
Charnell Peters
II. The Materiality of Obfuscation
7. “The One Thing Worse than No Test is a Bad Test”: Medical Obfuscation in the Lyme Disease Epidemic in Scotland
Ritti Soncco
8. Silenced Voices: The Injustice of Excluding the Global South from Academic Research
Boghuma K. Titanji
9. Epidemic Corpses and Photographic Obfuscation
Christos Lynteris
III. (Un)Applied Epidemiology
10. Unravelling the Neglect of the Human T-Cell Leukaemia Virus Type 1 (HTLV-1): A Critical History of Early Perspectives Toward HTLV-1 in a Remote Aboriginal Population in Central Australia
Fiona Fowler
11. Embodying a Partially Sighted System of Surveillance: Observations of an Unacknowledged Burden of Acute Flaccid Paralysis in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana
Freya L. Jephcott
12. Unawareness, or What We Do Not (Want to) Know
Seye Abimbola.
Index
Biography
Freya L. Jephcott is a Senior Research Associate in medical anthropology and epidemiology at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Lecturer in Global Health at the University of Sydney. She convenes the Hidden Epidemics and Epidemiological Obfuscation Research Network and Outbreak Ethnographies project. In addition to her research, Freya also does intermittent applied epidemiological work for Médecins Sans Frontières and the World Health Organization.
Hillary A. Ash is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Saint Louis University (USA).
Coreen McGuire is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Durham University (UK).
