Locating Zika: Social Change and Governance in an Age of Mosquito Pandemics

ISBN-13: 9781032082226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str.

Kevin Bardosh

Opis

This book locates the 2016 Zika epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean within its broader biosocial and historical context. The chapters contain a diverse set of case studies from scholars and health practitioners working across the region including Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia, the United States, and Haiti.

Spis treści

1. Understanding the Global Zika Response: Biographical Sketches of an Emergent Pandemic








2. Counting Zika: Insidious Uncertainties and Elusive Epidemic Facts











3. A Literary History of Zika: Following Brazilian State Responses through Documents of Emergency











4. Zika in Everyday Life: Gender, Motherhood and Reproductive Rights in Pernambuco State, Northeast Brazil











5. Politics as Disease in Venezuela: Vector Control Before and After the Bolivarian Revolution











6. Tracking Aedes Aegypti in a Hotter, Wetter, More Urban World: Capacity Building, Disease Surveillance and Epidemiological Labour in Ecuador











7. Arboviruses in Yucatan, Mexico: Anthropological Challenges, Multi-disciplinary Views and Practical Approaches











8. Does Belonging Really Matter? Municipal Governance, Vector Control and Urban Environments in a Colombian City











9. Reinventing Mosquito Control: Experimental Trials and Nonscalable Relations in the Florida Keys

O autorze

Kevin Bardosh (PhD) is Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Environmental and Global Health and Emerging Pathogens at the University of Florida, USA.