Ecologies of Disease Control

A rich set of essays through which disease histories are ‘ecologized’ for a new generation. Long gone is single and simple causation. Rather, the authors here explore centuries of hosts, zones, routes, mutations, herds, webs, and entanglements. The fresh embedding of ‘ecologies’ and ‘environmentality’ in histories of disease is one the few positive outcomes of COVID-19.

-- Alison Bashford, author of Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life on Earth

Ecologies of Disease Control ultimately underscores the historical and structural implementation and limits of applying ecological thinking to disease control at the local and global scales. Collectively, the authors demonstrate that health security and the ecological framework exist within a broader historical terrain and continuity. Medical and scientific researchers cannot afford to forget that history if they truly want to prevent and control disease.

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