Epidemiological Publics? On the Domestication of Modelling in the era of COVID-19

By Catherine Montgomery and Lukas Engelmann

This article is part of the series: Dispatches from the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has been called “a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco” (Ioannides, 2020), while the editor of the Lancet has declared that “the handling of the COVID-19 crisis in the UK is the most serious science policy failure in a generation” (Horton, 2020). At the heart of the science policy is mathematical modelling, a scientific activity once reserved for mathematicians, epidemiologists …

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March 20, 2014

TB/HIV: Distinct Histories, Entangled Futures. Towards an Epistemology of Co-infection

By Lukas Engelmann and Janina Kehr

Communication never occurs without a transformation,
and indeed always involves a stylized remodelling,
which intracollectively achieves corroboration
and which intercollectively yields fundamental alteration.

(Fleck 1981, 111)

One office, two diseases, two disciplines. That’s where we started. And while sharing an office as post-doctoral researchers at the University of Zürich, that’s where we stumbled upon one of those “epistemological obstacles” – …

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Epidemiological Publics? On the Domestication of Modelling in the era of COVID-19

TB/HIV: Distinct Histories, Entangled Futures. Towards an Epistemology of Co-infection