Ebola, images and DA analysis. Our last report

Seizing we are in Easter, we want to offer the report about our last seminary. In this case, wefor our research: a master' tesis about ebola, images and Discourse Analysis. Here you go:

discussed about a very interesting topic

Public health has become into a national security matter: what to do with the first one, now has to do with the latter.

"Viral forest": the monster tree from Africa that sends us occasionally diseases from animals (monkeys, bats, etc ...).

Global Health should move towards a system of global surveillance. (it remind us to Caduff): Each failed epidemic does not mean you have to rethink the parameters from which we think, but it means we have to improve these systems.

Distinction between: 1) Global health as development and 2) Global Health as a global health security. 

What do we mean by global? In Global Health, biopolitics and geopolitics come together. The conception we manage is important in order to understand what is exactly our topic.

From what mediations occurs the shift between the local to the global? Ebola is described 1) in different scales (viral, viral forest, forest-city relationship, etc ...) 2) how we move from one scale to another, and 3) by or from what translations this is possible.

In ANT, the global sense only is conceptualized by operators that upgrade or "enact" the global in a concrete regime and in a concrete sense. Ebola, for example, is a way to enact global, through public agencies, private sector, philanthropic organizations, academic institutions, health institutions, etc.

An effective response would require ebola "Staff, Stuff, Space and Systems". Interesting sentence.

Global health does not look (or at least not today) humanitarian aid, but the security. (interesting idea for a paper); or a derivative: in the first part of the 2015 Global Health, safety was sought, to make investments, but now it is looking for safety within, by the threat of contagion we shift to a global security, and any more for a Global Health.

Another interesting concept appeared in this document is the "Biological turn".

Finally, the name of the master' dissertation was: Ebola Exceptionalism: On the Intersecting Political and Health Geographies of the 2014-2015, and was written by Margaret M. Wilson.

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