Rural Disease Knowledge

Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century.

Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on the global history of microbiology, tropical medicine, and disease ecology. Christos Lynteris is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on the anthropological and historical study of zoonotic diseases, epizootics, and epidemics.

1. Introduction: The Scales, Subjects, and Politics of Rural Disease Knowledge Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva and Christos Lynteris 2. Demarcating the "Field" of Field Epidemiology in Britain: Rurality and the Narration of Epidemics (1850-1950) Jacob Steere-Williams 3. Extracting Blood, Flies, and Ideas: David and Mary Bruce, Vernacular Experts, and Unakane in Rural Zululand c. 1880s-1900s Jules Skotnes-Brown 4. Yaws: Medicine and Propaganda in Rural Java, 1911-1942 Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk 5. Salvador Mazza and Chagas Disease in Argentina: The Epistemic and Political Reshaping of a Controversial Rural Disease, 1926-1946 Juan Pablo Zabala 6. The Epidemiological and Epistemic Emergence of "Rural Plague" in Argentina Christos Lynteris 7. A Virus in the Forest: Yellow Fever, West Africa, and the Remaking of Alliances Among Living Things, 1900-1950 Gregg Mitman 8. A Global Desert: Plague, Rural Knowledge, and Epidemiological Reasoning in the Brazilian Backlands (1939-1965) Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva 9. Unnecessary Adversaries Amidst War: Biomedical and Non-biomedical Approaches to Leishmaniasis in Rural Colombia Lina Pinto-Garcia 10. Local Knowledge, Cattle-Human Relations, and Disease Perceptions of the Agropastoralists in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania Caroline Mwihaki Mburu and Kathrin Heitz-Tokpa Index