Warnings, war metaphors and infectious diseases: A little lit review
January 30, 2020
We are living through another global outbreak of an infectious disease: this time it’s a new version of the coronavirus. This outbreak of disease is, as usual, accompanied by an outbreak of war metaphors…. (some of them now collected in a later blog post). This brings back memories of other outbreaks, both in animals and …
The GM/gene drive communication confusion
September 20, 2019
The other day, I was at the airport waiting for a plane back to the UK, when I noticed on twitter that there was some kerfuffle going on about a field trial in Brazil intended to eliminate disease carrying mosquitoes, which had had, it seems, some unintended consequences (see study). Here is a short summary: …
Searching for Zika: Where are the women?
October 21, 2016
Newsflash: Article based on more qualitative analysis now out!! Media coverage of the Zika crisis in Brazil: The construction of a ‘war’ frame that masked social and gender inequalities (open access) *** The Zika virus has attracted a lot of attention over the last year. For some people it’s a faraway threat, for some it’s a …
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