Serotype: exploring the embodied experience of having dengue fever
This article studies how different forms of knowledge about dengue fever are created and negotiated. I explore how anthropology, in tandem with ideas and practices drawn from science and art, may transform public understandings of dengue in Medellín, Colombia. After showing why health campaigns cann...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Maguaré |
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| Online Access: | https://rcb.unal.edu.co/index.php/maguare/article/view/62888 |
| Summary: | This article studies how different forms of knowledge about dengue fever are created and negotiated. I explore how anthropology, in tandem with ideas and practices drawn from science and art, may transform public understandings of dengue in Medellín, Colombia. After showing why health campaigns cannot be reduced to a matter of eliminating mosquito-breeding sites, I argue that these campaigns should be re-designed—privileging relations and stimulating debate—by focusing on experience and moving towards managing the disease and living with the mosquito. I advocate for interdisciplinary collaboration as a relational strategy that can generate an intersubjective exchange of experiences. |
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| ISSN: | 0120-3045 2256-5752 |