Med Anthropol. 2009 Jul;28(3):189-98. doi: 10.1080/01459740903070410.
In this article we assess accounts of the H1N1 virus or "swine flu" to draw attention to the ways in which discourse about biosecurity and global health citizenship during times of pandemic alarms supports calls for the creation of global surveillance systems and naturalizes forms of governance. We propose a medical anthropology of epidemics to complement an engaged anthropology aimed at better and more critical forms of epidemic surveillance. A medical anthropology of epidemics provides insights into factors and actors that shape the ongoing production of knowledge about epidemics, how dominant and competing accounts circulate and interact, how different stakeholders (citizens, politicians, journalists, and policymakers) access and interpret information available from different sources-including through a variety of new digital venues-and what they do with it. These insights together provide a compelling agenda for medical anthropology and anyone working in health-related fields.
在本文中，我们评估了关于 H1N1 病毒或“猪流感”的说法，以引起人们对大流行警戒期间关于生物安全和全球健康公民身份的论述如何支持建立全球监测系统的关注，并使各种治理形式合理化。我们提出了一种传染病的医学人类学，以补充旨在更好地、更批判性地进行传染病监测的参与式人类学。传染病的医学人类学深入了解了塑造有关传染病的知识不断产生的因素和行为者，了解主导和竞争的说法如何传播和相互作用，以及不同的利益相关者（公民、政治家、记者和政策制定者）如何从不同的来源（包括各种新的数字渠道）获取和解释信息，并利用这些信息。这些观点共同为医学人类学和任何从事与健康相关领域的人提供了一个引人注目的议程。
