X Disease | Disease X: Medical Mystery-Solving and Epidemiological Change
This thesis addresses epidemiological knowledge-making in the face of new, unknown, emerging diseases. It uses two cases, Australian X Disease of the early 1900s and Disease X of the dawning 2000s, to broadly interrogate how medical mystery-solvers marshall forms of experimentation and classificatio...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147295 |
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| author | Robbins, Gabrielle |
| author2 | Wallley, Christine J. |
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| description | This thesis addresses epidemiological knowledge-making in the face of new, unknown, emerging diseases. It uses two cases, Australian X Disease of the early 1900s and Disease X of the dawning 2000s, to broadly interrogate how medical mystery-solvers marshall forms of experimentation and classification to identify and contain unknown diseases. While dominant theories of millenial disease preparedness emphasize treating emergent disease like other global, virulent epidemics like Zika and Ebola – comparisons of scale and scope – this thesis uses the Australian X Disease to argue for historical approaches to the medical unknown – comparisons through space and time. Given than epidemiological practice conditions what can be known as much as what is overlooked in the face of the unknown, such long-ranging investigative energy can be instructive contra the pitfalls of established medical practice. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1472952023-01-20T03:02:11Z X Disease | Disease X: Medical Mystery-Solving and Epidemiological Change Robbins, Gabrielle Wallley, Christine J. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society This thesis addresses epidemiological knowledge-making in the face of new, unknown, emerging diseases. It uses two cases, Australian X Disease of the early 1900s and Disease X of the dawning 2000s, to broadly interrogate how medical mystery-solvers marshall forms of experimentation and classification to identify and contain unknown diseases. While dominant theories of millenial disease preparedness emphasize treating emergent disease like other global, virulent epidemics like Zika and Ebola – comparisons of scale and scope – this thesis uses the Australian X Disease to argue for historical approaches to the medical unknown – comparisons through space and time. Given than epidemiological practice conditions what can be known as much as what is overlooked in the face of the unknown, such long-ranging investigative energy can be instructive contra the pitfalls of established medical practice. S.M. 2023-01-19T18:43:37Z 2023-01-19T18:43:37Z 2022-09 2022-08-12T14:43:01.258Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147295 In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted Copyright retained by author(s) https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Robbins, Gabrielle X Disease | Disease X: Medical Mystery-Solving and Epidemiological Change |
| title | X Disease | Disease X: Medical Mystery-Solving and Epidemiological Change |
| title_full | X Disease | Disease X: Medical Mystery-Solving and Epidemiological Change |
| title_fullStr | X Disease | Disease X: Medical Mystery-Solving and Epidemiological Change |
| title_full_unstemmed | X Disease | Disease X: Medical Mystery-Solving and Epidemiological Change |
| title_short | X Disease | Disease X: Medical Mystery-Solving and Epidemiological Change |
| title_sort | x disease disease x medical mystery solving and epidemiological change |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147295 |
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