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Between deserts and jungles : the emergence and circulation of sylvatic plague (1920-1950)

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Date
07/2023
Author
Alves Duarte Da Silva, Matheus
Funder
The Wellcome Trust
Grant ID
217988/Z/19/Z
Keywords
Amazon
Emptiness
Office International d’Hygiène Publique
Ricardo Jorge
Southern Africa
Wild rodents
HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
RA Public aspects of medicine
T-NDAS
MCP
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Abstract
I trace the development of the concept of sylvatic plague – the first sylvatic disease – examining its invention by Ricardo Jorge to describe a global phenomenon of plague reservoirs among wild rodents, and its circulation. The concept implied a space where plague was enzootic, and relied on a division between inhabited and uninhabited spaces and between domestic rats and wild rodents. Some of the characteristics of this space varied, but it always referred to places imagined as empty of humans and rats. In 1927, it designated ambiguously deserts, in 1935, uninhabited regions in general, and in Brazil, it referred to the jungle. O artigo retraça o desenvolvimento do conceito de peste selvática, a primeira doença selvática, da utilização por Ricardo Jorge para descrever um fenômeno global de reservatórios de peste entre roedores selvagens, até sua circulação nos anos 1930 e 40. O conceito inventou um espaço onde a peste se mantinha enzoótica, dividindo entre lugares habitados e inabitados, e roedores domésticos e selvagens. Algumas características desse espaço mudaram com o tempo, mas sempre mantendo a ideia de lugares imaginados como vazios de humanos e ratos. Em 1927, o conceito designava ambiguamente desertos, em 1935, regiōes desabitadas em geral, e no Brasil, ele se referia à selva.
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Alves Duarte Da Silva , M 2023 , ' Between deserts and jungles : the emergence and circulation of sylvatic plague (1920-1950) ' , Medical Anthropology , vol. 42 , no. 4 , pp. 325-339 . https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2023.2189110
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Medical Anthropology
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2023.2189110
ISSN
0145-9740
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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Research leading to this article was funded by the Wellcome Trust [grant ID 217988/Z/19/Z] for the project “The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis.”
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/27270

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