1st Edition
The Anthropology of Epidemics
Introduction: The Anthropology of Epidemics 1. Simulations of Epidemics: Techniques of Global Health and Neo-Liberal Government 2. Great Anticipations 3. What is an Epidemic Emergency? 4. Migrant Birds or Migrant Labour? Money, Mobility and the Emergence of Poultry Epidemics in Vietnam 5. Photography, Zoonosis and Epistemic Suspension after the End of Epidemics 6. The Multispecies Infrastructure of Zoonosis 7. Complexity, Anthropology and Epidemics 8. Pandemic Publics: How Epidemics Transform Social and Political Collectives of Public Health 9. Of What Are Epidemics the Symptom? Speed, Interlinkage and Infrastructure in Molecular Anthropology
Biography
Ann H. Kelly is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, UK, and the Co-Deputy Director of the King’s Global Health Institute. Her work focuses on the socio-material practices of global health research and innovation in sub-Saharan Africa.
Frédéric Keck is Director of Research at CNRS, attached to the Laboratory for Social Anthropology in Paris, France. He has conducted researches on the genealogy of social sciences, the ethnography of zoonotic diseases, and the microbial history of collections of human remains.
Christos Lynteris is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK. His work focuses on the anthropological and historical examination of infectious disease epidemics. He is the author of The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China (2012) and Ethnographic Plague (2016).
