International Review of Environmental History: Volume 8, Issue 1, 2022 by James Beattie, Brett Bennett instant download

International Review of Environmental History: Volume 8, Issue 1, 2022 by James Beattie, Brett Bennett instant download

This timely special issue of the International Review of Environmental History focuses on animals and epidemics in modern East Asia. The global pandemic of Covid-19 has forced us to think more deeply about the interrelations between animals, both human and non-human, and epidemics. Moreover, the intense attention on East Asia in this context demands that we study the region in the thematic matrix of health, environment, animals, sociocultural traditions, and geopolitics.
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Contents:
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• Introduction: Animals and epidemics in modern East Asia – Fa-ti Fan
• From Chi-gou 瘈狗 to Chi-bing 瘈病 (From ‘mad dogs’ to rabies): Pastorians and public health in Republican China – Chien-Ling Liu Zeleny
• Dangerous bites: Snakes, environmental encounter and biomedicine in Colonial Taiwan – Chieh-Ju Wu and Fa-ti Fan
• China’s pet activists: Using moral arguments and epidemic concerns to make space for animal rights – Suzanne Barber and Michael Hathaway
• Thinking with ‘dangerous animals’: More-than-human history and SARS-CoV-2 in East Asia – Ian Jared Miller
• Disease control in China: The curious centrality of evil animals and mass campaigns – Miriam Gross
• Reprogramming the story: Edible insects as vaccines – Lisa Onaga
• Agnotology of virology: The origins of Covid-19 and the next zoonotic pandemic – Lyle Fearnley
• Hotspots, spillovers and the shifting geopolitics of zoonotic emerging infectious diseases: A commentary – Gregg Mitman