The Politics of (Non)endemicity

Chagas Disease in the United States

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4823596
AutoresBernardo Moreno Peniche (0000-0002-0155-7279, Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen40
Número6
Páginas497-510
Fecha de publicación2021-08-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2021.1933483
PMID34121533
OpenAlexW3166898289
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas51

Chagas disease (CD) is a vector-borne parasitic disease endemic to Latin America. The US has established populations of vectors, parasites, and animal hosts, but because of the low frequency of locally acquired human infections CD is not classified as endemic there. I present a narrative review of the literature of autochthonous cases of CD in the US and analyze it with a co-productionist framework focused on material politics. I underscore the need for an ethnographic approach to the category of endemicity as not only an issue of knowledge and evidence but also as a practiced condition infused with power

Biology · Chagas disease · Disease · Ethnology · Latin Americans · Narrative · Narrative review · Parasitic Disease · Pathology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vector (molecular biology · Immunology · Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences · Medicine · Research on Leishmaniasis Studies · Trypanosoma species research and implications