What is it about?
This paper argues that the world is changing in ways that will increase the risks of lethal epidemics of infectious disease. While medical technology is improving, institutions of governance are failing in ways that will accelerate ecological instability, corrupt successful public health prevention efforts and increase global vulnerability to deadly outbreaks. Angola's 2015 epidemic of yellow fever is offered as a case study of these dynamics.
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Why is it important?
No one wants to die in a deadly pandemic.
Perspectives
I miss the optimism and enthusiasm of twentieth century public health. This paper is something of a eulogy for that time period.
Tassie Katherine Hirschfeld
University of Oklahoma
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This page is a summary of: Microbial insurgency: Theorizing global health in the Anthropocene, The Anthropocene Review, October 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2053019619882781.
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