After Pettenkofer. Munich’s Institute of Hygiene and the long shadow of National Socialism, 1894–1974

Schûtz, Mathias

doi:10.1016/j.ijmm.2020.151434

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“…On the one hand, hygienists were proponents of the aggregate view. A case in point is Virchow who claimed, against contagion theory, that the main cause of the 1848 typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia was the dire living conditions of large parts of the population (Schütz, 2020), hence it could be contained thanks to social, economic and educational measures alone (Azar, 1997: 70). On the other hand, John Snow’s 7 study, focused on an 1854 cholera epidemic in London, demonstrates that the cause of the disease is found in the pollution of drinking water.…”

Section: The Epidemics’ Prism On the Individual And The Collectivementioning

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Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity

Barry

2022

Theory, Culture & Society

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Despite their common core in statistics, insurance and epidemiology propel two different forms of solidarity. In insurance, the collective is a source of protection, thanks to the pooling of risks; in epidemics by contrast, the group remains the source of danger for the individual. The aim of this paper is to highlight the conceptions of community and solidarity at play in epidemics in contradistinction to insurance, with a focus on the shift introduced by big data and algorithms. Paradoxically, while the new technologies and epidemiology share a common view on the relation between the individual and the collective, tracing apps were not widely adopted in the Covid-19 crisis. This reluctance to use current technologies for the sake of epidemic containments highlights, beyond legitimate interrogations, a confusion between two imaginaries of the social: insurance solidarity where the interdependence is a source of rights, and epidemic solidarity that imposes duties.

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Section: The Epidemics’ Prism On the Individual And The Collectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity

Barry

2022

Theory, Culture & Society

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After Pettenkofer. Munich’s Institute of Hygiene and the long shadow of National Socialism, 1894–1974

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Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity

Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity

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