Open AccessPrepared for Anything
Author(s) -
Wolf Meike
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
german research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1522-2322
pISSN - 0172-1526
DOI - 10.1002/germ.201390023
Subject(s) - preparedness , pandemic , context (archaeology) , covid-19 , dimension (graph theory) , environmental ethics , engineering ethics , political science , sociology , public relations , medicine , virology , history , engineering , pathology , disease , law , archaeology , philosophy , infectious disease (medical specialty) , mathematics , outbreak , pure mathematics
From prevention to preparedness: Cultural anthropologists are re‐examining pandemics as globalised and globalising diseases. Viral infections such as SARS need to be understood in a wider context, beyond a purely medical dimension.