A One Health, participatory epidemiology assessment of anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) management in Western Uganda

Coffin, Jeanne L.; Monje, Fred; Asiimwe-Karimu, Grace; Amuguni, Hellen; Odoch, Terence

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.037

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“…This includes cultural anthropology (Wolf, 2015), ethno-ecological history (Giles-Vernick, et al, 2015) and participatory epidemiology (Coffin, et al, 2015;Paige, Malave, Mbabazi, Mayer, & Goldberg, 2015). We suggest that posthumanist theories and methods could similarly move forward research concerns with nonhuman species in public health, particularly critical public health but also more applied public health approaches rooted in social epidemiology.…”

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“…A recent special issue of Social Science & Medicine, for example, critiqued One-health for failing to address power relations (Craddock, 2015;Craddock & Hinchliffe, 2015;Giles-Vernick, et al, 2015), which has in turn meant that the social, political and economic embeddedness of human-animal interactions is not addressed by 'One-health' advocates (Coffin, Monje, Asiimwe-Karimu, Amuguni, & Odoch, 2015;Woldehanna & Zimicki, 2015;Wolf, 2015). Posthumanist theory can help public health researchers address these concerns, which are certainly shared by critical public health scholars.…”

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Posthumanist critique and human health: how nonhumans (could) figure in public health research

Friese

Nuyts

2017

Critical Public Health

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This paper uses bibliometric analysis and critical discourse analysis to explore the rise in research involving nonhumans in public health, and the potential contribution of posthumanist social theory to this growing body of public health scholarship. There has been a sudden and rather marked increase in research and writing on animals, zoonoses and/or the 'One-health' paradigm within public health journals since 2006. Indeed 'One-health' rather than 'posthumanism' holds together research involving nonhumans of various kinds -from viruses to animals -within the discipline. Advocates of the 'One-health' paradigm argue that human and animal health must be integrated through joining the research, training and care practices of human and animal medicine. By mapping the terrain of public health research involving nonhuman species, we consider how and where posthumanist theory could be productively drawn upon to contribute to both critical and applied research involving nonhumans within public health. We specifically ask how the posthumanist insight to 'follow the nonhumans' would raise new questions and analytics for this research area.

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Posthumanist critique and human health: how nonhumans (could) figure in public health research

Friese

Nuyts

2017

Critical Public Health

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“…veterinary or medical sciences which somehow engage with social science can also be found in the "social sciences and humanities" group]. The search produced four hits (Catley et al, 2009;Catley et al, 2014;Coffin et al, 2015;Goraya et al, 2013), from a total of 44 hits when the subject area was not limited. A search for "participatory epidemiology" in Google Scholar on 19 January 2016 and a browse through the author lists and abstracts of the first 50 hits produced no additional hits.…”

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“…A search for "participatory epidemiology" in Google Scholar on 19 January 2016 and a browse through the author lists and abstracts of the first 50 hits produced no additional hits. Finally, since one of the hits in Scopus (Coffin et al, 2015) was published in a special issue of the journal 'Social Science and Medicine', a search was performed in "all fields" and "all years" in that journal for "participatory epidemiology". It produced the following three additional hits (Tschakert et al, 2016;Craddock and Hinchliffe, 2015;Leach and Scoones, 2013).…”

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“…Although the small sample made it impossible to identify any significant trends, as seen in Table 1, this brief overview indicated that to date, social science researchers have been involved in PE only to a minor extent. Of the seven publications claiming to engage with social science in some regard (Coffin et al, 2015;Catley et al, 2009;Catley et al, 2012;Goraya et al, 2013;Craddock and Hinchliffe, 2015;Tschakert et al, 2016;Leach and Scoones, 2013), only three have social scientists among their authors (Leach and Scoones, 2013;Tschakert et al, 2016;Craddock and Hinchliffe, 2015), or four if educational researchers are included (Coffin et al, 2015), which could be viewed as being of high relevance for the development of PE. It should be acknowledged that many of the authors of the publications listed above, although not having an academic background in the social sciences, still have documented long-term practical experience of participatory work with animal owners and farmers.…”

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Where is the Participation in Participatory Epidemiology? How Engagement with Social Science could lead to Improved Understanding and Control of Peste des Petits Ruminants

Fischer¹,

Chenais²,

Torsson³

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| Peste des Petits ruminants (PPR) is a potentially lethal, highly contagious viral disease of sheep and goats. Domestic sheep and goats are important species for the livelihoods of poor people in many developing countries. Within societies where PPR is now spreading, poverty is widespread and the disease is expected to have significant negative impacts on livelihoods. In resource-constrained marginalised societies, it is often difficult to collect disease data in conventional ways. Participatory epidemiology (PE) has been suggested as a particularly suitable research method to study epidemiology and social impacts of diseases in these contexts. However, for PE to achieve its full potential, stronger efforts to achieve true participation and to incorporate lessons about participation and power from the social sciences may be required. This review shows that social science engagement in PE to date is virtually non-existent, but that increased efforts to draw lessons from the social sciences and to increase the degree of participation in PE could increase its potential as an important tool in disease impact assessment and control. Particular attention is paid here to the potential role of PE in future research on the epidemiology and control of PPR. P este des Petits ruminants (PPR) is an economically important and highly contagious viral disease of sheep and goats. It is the fourth most important disease of small ruminants world-wide, based on losses of livestock units (World Bank, 2011). Domestic sheep and goats are important species for poor people in many developing countries, where farming and animal husbandry make a critical contribution to the livelihoods of a significant share of households. In particular, the poorest groups in such smallholder farming societies, who have limited possibilities to invest in larger and higher value animals, depend on sheep and goat rearing (Perry et al., 2002). Thus the spread of PPR could have a particularly negative impact on the poorest and, consequently, controlling PPR can be expected to bring increased livelihood security to many of the rural poor.In the kinds of societies where PPR is now spreading, it is often difficult both to collect data and to implement disease control strategies in conventional ways, due to lack of infrastructure and lack of established systems for, and local experience of, collecting reliable quantitative data. Participatory epidemiology (PE) has been suggested as a particularly suitable methodology for both implementing disease control practices

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Kinship Health Relationships: Reconfiguring the “Good Death” in Mixed Species Families

Ashall,

Hamilton,

Johnson

et al. 2024

Symbolic Interaction

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Through an innovative interspecies analysis, this article explores narratives surrounding the medical treatment of humans and pet animals at the end of life among U.K. veterinary surgeons, medical practitioners, and members of the public. Contrasting the care options open to pet owners with those available to human patients, and through a thematic focus on treatments and medicines, euthanasia, and palliation, this article pays close attention to the ways that practitioners and members of the public make sense of—and express ideas about—interspecies family kinship at the end of life. We highlight the utility of interactionist approaches for understanding microsocial human‐animal kinship ties and argue that health policy and practice during end‐of‐life care should better reflect the lived reality of the multispecies family. In so doing, we highlight the significance and complexities of interspecies conversations for the development of contemporary end‐of‐life care debates.

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A One Health, participatory epidemiology assessment of anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) management in Western Uganda

Cited by 54 publications

References 17 publications

Posthumanist critique and human health: how nonhumans (could) figure in public health research

Posthumanist critique and human health: how nonhumans (could) figure in public health research

Where is the Participation in Participatory Epidemiology? How Engagement with Social Science could lead to Improved Understanding and Control of Peste des Petits Ruminants

Kinship Health Relationships: Reconfiguring the “Good Death” in Mixed Species Families

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