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dc.contributor.authorBell, Moragde
dc.contributor.authorBrown, Timde
dc.contributor.authorFaire, Lucyde
dc.date.accessioned2011-03-01T07:24:00Zde
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-30T04:48:11Z
dc.date.available2012-08-30T04:48:11Z
dc.date.issued2006de
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/23266
dc.description.abstractThis paper is inspired by an outbreak of pulmonary tuberculosis in the British East Midlands city of Leicester in 2001. In an era characterized by unprecedented advances in Western medical science an event of this kind might appear surprising. It challenges the feeling of wellbeing held in many Western countries, particularly in relation to diseases that appear both temporally and spatially distant. The paper examines how the event was reported in regional and national newspaper media and considers the significance attached to scale in the interactions between experts, the media and the public. In our analysis we mobilize a particular reading based on two biological metaphors, the membrane and the gene. We use this reading to reconsider the connectivity between disease, nation and identity in a world that is increasingly fluid, mobile, anxious and uncertain.en
dc.languageende
dc.titleGerms, genes and postcolonial geographies: reading the return of tuberculosis to Leicester, UK, 2001en
dc.description.reviewbegutachtet (peer reviewed)de
dc.description.reviewpeer revieweden
dc.source.journalCultural Geographiesde
dc.source.volume13de
dc.source.issue4de
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-232661de
dc.date.modified2011-03-01T07:24:00Zde
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ssoar.contributor.institutionhttp://www.peerproject.eu/de
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dc.type.documentjournal articleen
dc.type.documentZeitschriftenartikelde
dc.source.pageinfo577-599
internal.identifier.journal70de
internal.identifier.document32
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1191/1474474006cgj376oade
dc.description.pubstatusPostprinten
dc.description.pubstatusPostprintde
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