Epidemiological Obfuscation

Historical and Contemporary Case Studies
Herausgeber: McGuire, Coreen; Ash, Hillary A.; Jephcott, Freya L.

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Produktbeschreibung

Epidemiology ostensibly exists to reveal and ascribe features to burdens of disease at a population level. However, as the designated arbiter of visibility in public health, it is well-positioned to also obscure burdens of disease with significant implications for both social justice and disease control. This edited volume brings together empirical accounts of epidemiological obfuscation developed by public health researchers from diverse fields, including medicine, history, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology, and rhetoric. In reading across these rich accounts, we begin to characterise what epidemiological obfuscation is, the situations in which it occurs, and the practices underlying it. As such, the book not only serves as a catalogue of independently interesting and robustly developed accounts of important episodes in the history and contemporary practice of epidemiology, but also as a foundational body of scholarship on this central but oft overlooked aspect of epidemiology, namely, its ability to obscure as well as elucidate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9781032847016
• ISBN-10: 1032847018
• Artikelnr.: 75127552

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Elucidating Epidemiological Obfuscation I. Relative
Burdens and the Construction of "Inherent" Community Problems 2.
Distributed Ignorance, Tricky Cases, and Low Hanging Fruit: Targeting
Antibiotics and Treating Bladders 3. Categorically Other: The Production of
(Non-)Knowledge about Women with AIDS through Surveillance Data Collection
and Reporting 4. Directing and Deflecting Attention in Fronter Nursing
Service Bulletins: Public Health and Maternal Health Care in Eastern
Kentucky, 1925-1935 5. Investigating Categories in The Treasury of Human
Inheritance 6. #BlackMamasMatter as Critical Race Counterstory: Resisting
the Obfuscation of Obstetric Racism 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 8. Silenced Voices: The Injustice of
Excluding the Global South from Academic Research 9. Epidemic Corpses and
Photographic Obfuscation 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 11. Embodying a Partially Sighted System of
Surveillance: Observations of an Unacknowledged Burden of Acute Flaccid
Paralysis in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana 12. Unawareness, or What We Do
Not (Want to) Know. Index