Epidemiological Obfuscation
Epidemiology ostensibly exists to reveal and ascribe features to burdens of disease at a population level. However, as the designated arbiter of visibility in public health, it is well-positioned to also obscure burdens of disease with significant implications for both social justice and disease con...
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| author | Kashouris, Eleanor | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6985-8011 |
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| description | Epidemiology ostensibly exists to reveal and ascribe features to burdens of disease at a population level. However, as the designated arbiter of visibility in public health, it is well-positioned to also obscure burdens of disease with significant implications for both social justice and disease control. This edited volume brings together empirical accounts of epidemiological obfuscation developed by public health researchers from diverse fields, including medicine, history, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology, and rhetoric. In reading across these rich accounts, we begin to characterise what epidemiological obfuscation is, the situations in which it occurs, and the practices underlying it. As such, the book serves not only as a catalogue of independently interesting and robustly developed accounts of important episodes in the history and contemporary practice of epidemiology but also as a foundational body of scholarship on this central but oft overlooked aspect of epidemiology, namely, its ability to obscure as well as elucidate. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1730032026-06-03T08:09:52Z Epidemiological Obfuscation Kashouris, Eleanor | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6985-8011 Ash, Hillary | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6115-2919 Jephcott, Freya | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3256-0099 McGuire, Coreen | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3828-8578 Distributed ignorance Health disparities research Medical data bias Surveillance ethics Maternal health inequities Exclusion in research Epidemiological knowledge production Public health History of medicine Obscure Burden Visibility System Global health Policy Science and technology studies Epidemic Community Case study Social justice Control Population Knowledge Epidemiology Ethnography Information Data Practice Medical anthropology Clinic Rhetoric Surveillance Disease Healthcare thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNS Epidemiology and Medical statistics thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFN Health, illness and addiction: social aspects Epidemiology ostensibly exists to reveal and ascribe features to burdens of disease at a population level. However, as the designated arbiter of visibility in public health, it is well-positioned to also obscure burdens of disease with significant implications for both social justice and disease control. This edited volume brings together empirical accounts of epidemiological obfuscation developed by public health researchers from diverse fields, including medicine, history, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology, and rhetoric. In reading across these rich accounts, we begin to characterise what epidemiological obfuscation is, the situations in which it occurs, and the practices underlying it. As such, the book serves not only as a catalogue of independently interesting and robustly developed accounts of important episodes in the history and contemporary practice of epidemiology but also as a foundational body of scholarship on this central but oft overlooked aspect of epidemiology, namely, its ability to obscure as well as elucidate. 2026-03-01T06:03:56Z 2026-03-01T06:03:56Z 2026-02-28T20:28:01Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/110444 9781003540755 9781032847016 9781032890036 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/173003 eng Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology open access Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003540755 10.4324/9781003540755 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781003540755 9781032847016 9781032890036 Routledge 1 London open access |
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| title | Epidemiological Obfuscation |
| title_full | Epidemiological Obfuscation |
| title_fullStr | Epidemiological Obfuscation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Epidemiological Obfuscation |
| title_short | Epidemiological Obfuscation |
| title_sort | epidemiological obfuscation |
| topic | Distributed ignorance Health disparities research Medical data bias Surveillance ethics Maternal health inequities Exclusion in research Epidemiological knowledge production Public health History of medicine Obscure Burden Visibility System Global health Policy Science and technology studies Epidemic Community Case study Social justice Control Population Knowledge Epidemiology Ethnography Information Data Practice Medical anthropology Clinic Rhetoric Surveillance Disease Healthcare thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNS Epidemiology and Medical statistics thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFN Health, illness and addiction: social aspects |
| topic_facet | Distributed ignorance Health disparities research Medical data bias Surveillance ethics Maternal health inequities Exclusion in research Epidemiological knowledge production Public health History of medicine Obscure Burden Visibility System Global health Policy Science and technology studies Epidemic Community Case study Social justice Control Population Knowledge Epidemiology Ethnography Information Data Practice Medical anthropology Clinic Rhetoric Surveillance Disease Healthcare thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNS Epidemiology and Medical statistics thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFN Health, illness and addiction: social aspects |
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