Brown Hannah, Kelly Ann H
Department of Anthropology, Durham University.
Med Anthropol Q. 2014 Jun;28(2):280-303. doi: 10.1111/maq.12092. Epub 2014 Apr 21.
This article outlines a research program for an anthropology of viral hemorrhagic fevers (collectively known as VHFs). It begins by reviewing the social science literature on Ebola, Marburg, and Lassa fevers and charting areas for future ethnographic attention. We theoretically elaborate the hotspot as a way of integrating analysis of the two routes of VHF infection: from animal reservoirs to humans and between humans. Drawing together recent anthropological investigations of human-animal entanglements with an ethnographic interest in the social production of space, we seek to enrich conceptualizations of viral movement by elaborating the circumstances through which viruses, humans, objects, and animals come into contact. We suggest that attention to the material proximities-between animals, humans, and objects-that constitute the hotspot opens a frontier site for critical and methodological development in medical anthropology and for future collaborations in VHF management and control.
本文概述了一项关于病毒性出血热（统称为VHFs）人类学的研究计划。文章开篇回顾了关于埃博拉、马尔堡和拉沙热的社会科学文献，并规划了未来人种志研究应关注的领域。我们从理论上详细阐述了热点区域，以此作为整合VHF感染两条途径分析的一种方式：从动物宿主到人类以及在人类之间的传播。结合近期对人类与动物纠葛的人类学调查以及对空间社会生产的人种志研究兴趣，我们试图通过阐述病毒、人类、物体和动物接触的环境来丰富对病毒传播的概念化理解。我们认为，关注构成热点区域的动物、人类和物体之间的物质接近性，为医学人类学的批判性和方法论发展以及未来在VHF管理与控制方面的合作开辟了一个前沿阵地。
