Ann H. Kelly > Quotes

“Empirically the chapter follows a series of articles published in prominent newspapers and magazines.”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“Drawing from the anthropology of ritual, we will analyse what simulation does”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“the age of emergence is pervaded by a pessimistic outlook of the world, that necessitates new forms of power and knowledge for the maintenance of human mastery over human/non-human relations (Lynteris 2017b).”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“over-reaction’ of the WHO to the H1N1 epidemic in 2009”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“The efforts to manage the ontological complexity of pathogenic circulations, labelled under the term ‘One Health’,”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“The idea of communicative inequity is a powerful anthropological tool that underlines the ways in which, beyond global health fantasies and fetishisations of data sharing, on the actual ground what counts as meaningful and actionable evidence, how information is distributed, and the way this accrues value depend on pervasive racial, gender, and class hierarchies.”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“(Lakoff 2017: 50).”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“the extension of governmental power”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“For infectious diseases, simulations rely on models based on bioinformatics, displaying the beginning and end of the curve, anticipating different waves of the epidemic (Mackenzie 2003).”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“The drill’s success was not questioned; it was deemed successful because it had been held. The scenario was designed in such a way that no surprising event could happen:”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“Medical historians and anthropologists have studied the ways in which decisions over disease aetiology, transmission pathways, and other key epidemiological traits regarding a given outbreak are influenced by social, economic, and political factors.”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“as a way of defining and policing what counts as knowledge and what can be discounted as rumour, stories, or anecdote.”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“This turn has been catalysed by the importance of zoonosis for the broader paradigm shift in virology and bacteriology known by the name of Emerging Infectious Disease: the idea that pathogens hitherto only carried by non-human animals are able to mutate and ‘spill over’ to humans, causing great mortality in populations never exposed to them before (King 2002; Quammen 2012).”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“confirmed experts’ scenarios on the emergence of new infectious diseases from the animal reservoir in south China.”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“research on the Chinese-Russian frontier led to the first systematic scientific study of plague as a zoonotic (animal to human) disease of sylvatic (i.e. ‘wild’) origins.”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“as if to show that diseases were part of the natural ecosystem of the territory.”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“post-9/11 biosecurity agenda”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“The decision to bring the official emergency to a close – nine months after it had begun – did not come because the spread of the disease had been brought under control.”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“Global health has been analysed by some observers as marking the end of sovereign states replaced by NGOs, international organisations (WHO, OIE, FAO), and private foundations (such as the Gates Foundation) in the funding of public health interventions.”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“simulations, exercises, and drills”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“a public denouncement of the Russian hypothesis about the zoonotic origins of plague in the region.”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“Asia has long been considered the ‘epicenter’ of emerging animal epidemics, particularly those that threaten to spill over to human populations (Shortridge and Stuart-Harris 1982).”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“anthropology and epidemiology have much more in common than their current self-presentation may allow us to believe.”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“to die from infectious disease is in many ways to meet an unspeakable end.”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“indigenous illness beliefs,”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“In a strange looping effect, the false alert was produced by the very preparedness apparatus that was supposed to deal with it.”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“The epidemiological reasoning evident in this epistemic entanglement is a rich field for medical anthropological and historical investigation into the ‘ethnographic configuration of plague’ (ibid.).”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“as anthropologists, we need to take seriously the self-positioning of epidemic control as technologically advanced,”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“envisioning what a critical epidemiology may be, what could be its aims, programme, and principles.”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics

“the emerging One Health paradigm.”
― Ann H. Kelly, The Anthropology of Epidemics