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Plague Masks: The Visual Emergence of Anti-Epidemic Personal Protection Equipment
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Arguing that face-worn devices should be taken seriously as masks, it is demonstrated that their emergence was rooted in their configuration as transformative agents of medical reason.
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The Prophetic Faculty of Epidemic Photography: Chinese Wet Markets and the Imagination of the Next Pandemic
Dominant trends in epidemiological research and medical journalism today share a belief in the “next pandemic,” a microbiological catastrophe of Old Testament proportions that threatens to annihilate…
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The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China: Socialist Medicine and the New Man
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Note on Transcription Introduction The Sublimation of Skill Self-Cultivation: Confucian Roots Red or Expert? Abolishing the Self as Private Property Conclusion…
Anthropology and Medical Photography: Ethnographic, Critical and Comparative Perspectives
The study of medical photography, inclusive of epidemiological and humanitarian applications of the genre, is a promising new field for visual anthropology. Focusing on the interlinked questions of…
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The State as a Social Relation. An Anthropological Critique
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This polemic proposes an anthropological critique of the state which approaches the latter not as Leviathan composed of the bodies of its subjects, nor as mere fiction, but as a social relation and at the same time as a mystification of this relation, which allows it to endure as a pervading apparatus of capture of social relatedness.
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Zoonosis : prospects and challenges for medical anthropology
In recent years anthropologists have shown an increasing interest in lzoonosesr: diseases naturally transmitted from nonhuman animals to humans, such as anthrax, brucellosis, influenza, hantavirus…
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Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary
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The Anthropology of Epidemics
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The Epidemiologist as Culture Hero: Visualizing Humanity in the Age of “the Next Pandemic”
Concern over the “coming plague,” a projected microbiological catastrophe threatening the survival of humanity, has come to generate a new cinematic figure: the epidemiologist as culture hero. The…
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Zoonotic diagrams : mastering and unsettling human-animal relations
Research leading to this article was funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant (under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme ERC grant agreement no. 336564) for the project…
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