Project description
Uncovering the history of epidemiological reasoning
During the 20th century, epidemiology and its experts have played a vital role in defining public health crisis such as infectious diseases. The EU-funded TER project seeks to understand how epidemiologists have built their arguments and define epidemics and what makes this kind of reasoning unique. To do this, the project will trace the historical rise of epidemiological reasoning through the 20th century to shed light on how a novel data science changed views on health and disease in science and society. The project's work will lead to a digital collection of new empirical data, an interactive record of the epidemiological revolution and a historical epistemology.
Objective
The Epidemiological Revolution (TER) will trace the historical rise of epidemiological reasoning through the long twentieth century to understand how a novel data science transformed conceptions of health and disease in science and society. The project will map the conditions in which epidemiology became an authoritative science, and reconstruct how the epidemic has assumed scientific and political urgency since 1900. This seismic epistemological shift resulted in new eminence for epidemiological modelling, a radical expansion of what counts as epidemiological data, and innovative applications for thinking about epidemic phenomena far beyond traditional accounts of infectious disease.
TER will address these aims through analysis of three discrete modes of epidemiological reasoning:
1. Modelling, and the invention of the epidemiological graph
2. Correlation, and the making of epidemiological data
3. Configuration, and the social formation of epidemiology
Mapping these modes of reasoning, TER will create an ambitious digital collection of new empirical data and a comprehensive interactive record of the epidemiological revolution. TER will, for the first time, deliver a historical epistemology which examines the shifting contours of epidemics as epistemic objects, as well as of epidemiology as a distinct system of thought in the long twentieth century. This project takes a ground-breaking approach to the historiography of data-science, combining high-impact case studies with digital research tools to explore the political, ethical and social challenges of this seismic shift.
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- humanities philosophy, ethics and religion philosophy epistemology
- medical and health sciences health sciences public health epidemiology
- social sciences political sciences political transitions revolutions
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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