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| Epidemics, Matter, Significance, and Responsibility | ||
| 作者 | Read, Ian (著) |
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| 出處題名 | The Journal of Oriental Studies |
| 卷期 | v.32 |
| 出版日期 | 2023 |
| 頁次 | 25 - 49 |
| 出版者 | The Institute of Oriental Philosophy=東洋哲學研究所 |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.totetu.org/ |
| 出版地 | 東京, 日本 [Tokyo, Japan] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliation: Soka University of America, USA. |
| 摘要 | Like the coronavirus, another contagious, airborne, respiratory, and viral disease has escaped collective immune responses and medical interventions through mutated variants to create destructive pandemics. The influenza virus shows that epidemics cannot be understood or controlled through the old beliefs that nature and culture are ontologically separate and dichotomous. This article first explores the entangled being of influenza using a historical method and a short case study from Brazil. In the late 19th century, Brazilians recognized an influenza pandemic in ways that thoroughly integrated matter and significance. Next, the article discusses influenza from biological, chemical, and ecological perspectives. I argue that the properties of influenza viruses and other infectious diseases are not self-revealing or a reflection of ourselves, but something in between and among, objects dynamically marked, shaped, and receptive to new translations into human language and understanding. This position calls for a different epidemiological ethics that discards other unhelpful dichotomies (life/ non-life, harmful/ harmless germs, healthy/ ill) to bring us an ethicsof epidemiology best rooted in the relational and radiant ontology of Buddhist belief. |
| 目次 | Introduction: Eras of Epidemics 25 Influenza in Brazilian History 30 Influenza in Matter and Significance 38 Notes 46 About the Author 49 |
| ISSN | 09155309 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 4 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.09.03 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.09.06 |
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