Emerging diseases, re‐emerging histories

Green, Monica H.

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“…It is human agency. 5 Our choices in food acquisition, our networks of commodity distribution, our drive for cheap labour or for sex-all have turned small outbreaks and spillover events into global scourges. As the WHO prepares to search for the origin of the COVID19 pandemic, it might reveal more than zoonotic spillover.…”

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How a microbe becomes a pandemic: a new story of the Black Death

Green

2020

The Lancet Microbe

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How a microbe becomes a pandemic: a new story of the Black Death

Green

2020

The Lancet Microbe

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“…Scholars working in cross-disciplinary areas of health study are increasingly pointing towards the ways in which modern lifestyles create vulnerabilities to disease, amplifying or enabling microorgansims’ pathogenicity. This includes ‘disease situations’ that stress immune systems and turn otherwise harmless microbes into pathogens; evolutionary perspectives that suggest the pathogens best able to exploit human behaviours and global networks in any given age will arise to cause pandemics; and warnings regarding the impacts of socioeconomic inequality, and the degradation of healthcare systems due to conflict, war and corruption ( Bingham et al, 2008 , Cole, 2014 , Dikid et al, 2013 , Green, 2020 , Hinchliffe et al, 2016 , Hotez, 2020 , Hotez et al, 2016 ). The consequences are a world where infectious disease is likely to become more prevalent and harder to control with the medical interventions we came to rely on throughout the twentieth century: both because it will take time to develop vaccines against the novel diseases – which have emerged with increasing frequency in recent decades – and because diseases with which we are already familiar are developing resistance to the drugs we have so far used to hold them at bay ( Madhav et al, 2020 , Morens et al, 2004 , Trovato et al, 2020 ).…”

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Surveillance and prevalence of antimicrobial resistant bacteria from public settings within urban built environments: Challenges and opportunities for hygiene and infection control

Cave

Cole

Mkrtchyan

2021

Environment International

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Antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacteria present one of the biggest threats to public health; this must not be forgotten while global attention is focussed on the COVID-19 pandemic. Resistant bacteria have been demonstrated to be transmittable to humans in many different environments, including public settings in urban built environments where high-density human activity can be found, including public transport, sports arenas and schools. However, in comparison to healthcare settings and agriculture, there is very little surveillance of AMR in the built environment outside of healthcare settings and wastewater. In this review, we analyse the existing literature to aid our understanding of what surveillance has been conducted within different public settings and identify what this tells us about the prevalence of AMR. We highlight the challenges that have been reported; and make recommendations for future studies that will help to fill knowledge gaps present in the literature.

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“…All diseases that have led to a pandemic are diseases that humans "made possible" (Green, 2020). By definition, a pandemic is hence a spreading through human networks and thereby the creation of the same disease experience in human populations around the globe.…”

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Limit your body area -a COVID-19 mass radicalisation challenging autonomy and basic human rights

Glasdam

Stjernswärd

2021

IJHRH

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Purpose This paper aims to explore articulations of how individuals internalise official demands on handling COVID-19 and the function of social media in this process, and further to discuss this from a human rights’ perspective. Design/methodology/approach A thematic analysis of qualitative data from an international survey on COVID-19 and social media. The analysis was inspired by Berger and Luckmann's theory of reality as a social construction. Findings Articulations expressed an instant internalisation and externalisation of the officially defined “new normal”. However, negotiations of this “new normal” were articulated, whereby everyday life activities could proceed. Resistance to the “new normal” appeared, as routines and common sense understandings of everyday life were threatened. Health-care professionals were put in a paradoxical situation, living in accordance with the “new normal” outside work and legitimately deviating from it at work. The “new normal” calls for individuals’ “oughtonomy” rather than autonomy. Social media were used to push individual’s re-socialisation into the “new normal”. The latter both promoted and challenged human rights as the individual's right to self-determination extends beyond the self as it risks threatening other people's right to life. Originality/value With the means of a theoretically based thematic analysis inspired by Berger and Luckmann, the current study shows how articulations on COVID-19 and social media can both support and challenge human rights and reality as a facticity as dictated by dominant organisations and discourses in society.

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Emerging diseases, re‐emerging histories

Cited by 30 publications

References 32 publications

How a microbe becomes a pandemic: a new story of the Black Death

How a microbe becomes a pandemic: a new story of the Black Death

Surveillance and prevalence of antimicrobial resistant bacteria from public settings within urban built environments: Challenges and opportunities for hygiene and infection control

Limit your body area -a COVID-19 mass radicalisation challenging autonomy and basic human rights

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