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Epidemiological Realism

By Vincent Bruyere

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2024
ISBN
3031685172, 9783031685170
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (6827042 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Pages
118\125
Time added
2024-10-01 00:40:36

Description

This book examines what it means to live in an epidemiological reality, exploring the worldbuilding properties of epidemiology through the lens of critical theory, literary analysis, and visual culture. Whether we want it or not, we live in a world made of statistical correlations, risk factors, and social determinants of health, animal reservoirs and spillovers, containment strategies and curves to be flattened, prophylactic measures, and syndromic surveillance systems detecting in real-time potential outbreaks. This book uses a series of vignettes to show that we have lived in a version of that reality for quite some time now, even before the formalization of epidemiological tools and concepts at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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