Aug 2023
The new edition of Medical Anthropology features a special issue about the notion of “Disease Revoir.”
The dossier 
“Disease Reservoirs: Anthropological and Historical Approaches” (Vol.42, 2023) was edited by Matheus Duarte da Silva, Oliver French, and Jules Skotnes-Brown, researchers from the University of Saint Andrews, and Frédéric Keck from the Laboratory of Social Anthropology (CNRS-Collège de France-EHESS).
In the introduction of this special issue, guest editors set out the origins of disease reservoir frameworks and chart this concept within and across early 20th-century colonial contexts, emphasising its configuration within imperial projects that sought to identify, map, and control spaces of contagion among humans, animals, and pathogens.
This issue also traces the position the reservoir framework assumed within post-colonial practices and imaginaries of global health, with particular reference to the emerging infectious disease paradigm.
Related articles in HCS-Manguinhos:
Some directions of the Global History of Science Matheus Duarte is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of St Andrews. See this interview with him.
