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%T Germs, genes and postcolonial geographies: reading the return of tuberculosis to Leicester, UK, 2001
%A Bell, Morag
%A Brown, Tim
%A Faire, Lucy
%J Cultural Geographies
%N 4
%P 577-599
%V 13
%D 2006
%= 2011-03-01T07:24:00Z
%~ http://www.peerproject.eu/
%> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-232661
%X This 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.
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%9 journal article
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