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Tag Archives: Public engagement

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April 10, 2020

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 …

Read More 4 Comments coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemiology, modeling, Pandemics, Public engagement, Science Studies
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August 4, 2014

Not moribund at all! An historian of medicine’s response to Richard Horton

By Carsten Timmermann

Writing in The Lancet, Richard Horton called historians of medicine “invisible, inaudible, and … inconsequential”. Historian of medicine Carsten Timmermann responds. This piece is being simultaneously cross-posted at The H Word, a history of science blog hosted by The Guardian.

In a comment published in the medical journal The Lancet, ‘The moribund body of medical history’ …

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Medical Anthropology Weekly: COVID-19

A weekly compilation of COVID-19-related materials across text, audio, and video formats.

Thinking with Dementia

Stories about time shifted, folded and shared, the extraordinary ordinary, and keeping separate and being a-part.

Toxicity, Waste, and Detritus in the Global South: Africa and Beyond

Short adventures into our planet’s toxic sensorium, by Africanists and some of their scholarly kin.‬

The Ethnographic Case

Telling Stories and Shaping Knowledge: Reflections on the tensions between the general and the particular.‬

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‪Itemizing the technological present: A series of short entries from scholars on the classical and contemporary sites in medicine and science.‬

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