Aphorisms on Epidemiological Modelling
Juan Afanador
TL;DR
This paper critically examines epidemiological modelling, especially within Scotland's EPIC, highlighting its negative aspects and challenging the optimistic narratives often associated with One Health and pandemic modelling.
Contribution
It introduces a paratactical critique of epidemiological modelling, emphasizing the importance of negativity and critique in scientific practice.
Findings
Highlights the critique of positive narratives in epidemiological science
Emphasizes the role of negativity in scientific critique
Problems with the current modelling culture in pandemic response
Abstract
Epidemiological modelling is critiqued towards a scientific practice of negativity in the context of Scotland's Centre of Expertise on Animal Disease Outbreaks (EPIC). The paratactical approach to the melancholy science is invoked to problematise One Health, the intra-pandemic modelling culture, and to delineate an inkling of the negative in EPIC's work.
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Taxonomy
TopicsZoonotic diseases and public health · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology