ANTC68H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brain Damage, Filoviridae, Cottage Country
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May 1: anthropogenic- human made factors, whether its behaviour, tradition, aspects of society, that humans have created. Stds are pandemic over the last 2-3 years. How social phenomenon take on characteristics of viral disease, just spread. 2000- and 90s, big mechanism for that is social media- internet, (cid:449)e (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e the pe(cid:396)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) of epidemics today as we did in the 80s where it as about nuclear wars: we have access to so much information. Notions of social constructions of disease, has been highly facilitated by technology or the internet. The amount of misinformation is included in that ^^: movies have propagated that, books after outbreaks, non-infectious diseases, know the diff between bacteria versus virus also. Epidemiological imaginary- making sense of times of spatial disruption through the terms of infectious disease. Preoccupation with thinking of biological and non bio phenomenon, thinking about a lot of social phenomenon of disease. Use these terms of epidemiology in use of epidemic.
