title: The return of epidemics and the politics of global-local health.
abstract: With fears of global health epidemics (of reemerging infectious diseases) having escalated over the past few decades, we must ask how we understand the diverse responses to such outbreaks. I explore a single event that merits revisiting--the 1994 outbreak of plague in Surat, the commercial capital of the Indian state of Gujarat--in an attempt to answer this question. I trace responses at various intersecting levels of public health and political authority-global, national, and local-as they interacted with each other and expressed specific political concerns and social anxieties during this outbreak.
authors.affiliation: Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. ks2890@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Kavita
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sivaramakrishnan
mesh_terms: D058872:Epidemics / Q000266:history*; D014943:Global Health; D006291:Health Policy; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D010930:Plague / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history*; D011057:Politics