biosecurity

research

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

medical anthropologist

university professor

University of Washington

innovator in the field of

medical anthropology

security

anthropology

is a response to challenges within weakened public health systems.

Biosecurity is also a response to challenges within weakened public health systems, the 'return of the microbe' in the form of new frightening diseases like SARS and West Nile virus and the ongoing battle against the AIDS epidemic [8]. Biosecurity also extends to political events such as the post-September 11 World Trade Center bombing where biological threats in the form of posted letters contained deadly anthrax bacteria [9]. There emerges, in these aforementioned events, a sense of being threatened, endangered and in dire times, requiring of preventive interventions [10]. Where the dangerous non-human is concerned, it is also depicted as protectable, manageable and controllable. Along the same vein, intervention measures employed to control the spread of H5N1 influenza in Indonesia allow me to analyse how national sovereignty, biosecurity and science interact. (net)

is the activity of attacking the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

Celia Lowe

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