Photography, zoonosis and epistemic suspension after the end of epidemics

Christos Lynteris

doi:10.4324/9780429461897-6

Photography, zoonosis and epistemic suspension after the end of epidemics

Christos Lynteris

Social Anthropology

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Through the study of the photographic production accompanying the Chinese-Russian plague expedition to South Siberia and Mongolia in the summer of 1911, this chapter examines the way in which photography after the end of epidemics is implicated in processes of epistemic uncertainty and doubt. The chapter examines photographs contained in two unpublished albums compiled by China’s founding epidemiologist, Wu Liande. Arguing that these both portray and foster uncertainty and doubt over Wu’s hitherto proclaimed thesis that Siberian marmots were the origin of the devastating plague epidemic in Manchuria between October 1910 and April 1911, the chapter considers the role of visual representations in epidemiological reasoning in periods following the end of epidemic outbreaks, often experienced as inter-epidemic intervals.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The anthropology of epidemics
Editors	Ann H. Kelly, Frédéric Keck, Christos Lynteris
Place of Publication	Abingdon, Oxon
Publisher	Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Chapter	5
Pages	84-101
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9780429461897
ISBN (Print)	9781138616677, 9780367581947
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429461897-6
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2019

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Name	Routledge studies in health and medical anthropology

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Photography, zoonosis and epistemic suspension after the end of epidemics

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