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Contingent Futures, Continuous Pasts: Experts, Activists and Social and Disease Transitions (1950–80s) (2021)

Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita (Author)

UCL Press
Pages: 80-105
Publication date: 2021
Language: English

URI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv14t4769.8

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Models and modeling in science History of medicine, as a discipline Global health Chronic diseases Epidemiological transition (public health) Demography; population research

Scholars have been increasingly rethinking the demographic and disease shifts that have been occurring worldwide, such as the global ageing of populations and shifts in incidence and patterns of chronic disease. This has led to a growing interest among social scientists, and particularly historians of health and disease, in probing the deterministic models and assumptions that experts have articulated about these shifts in patterns of disease conditions, the ageing of populations and the social and health challenges that have been associated with these global shifts. How can we understand the power of experts in deploying contingent and uncertain knowledge, rather

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