Disasters Fast and Slow: The View from Disaster Anthropology

Alison Kenner's contribution to the roundtable draws on three years of ethnographic fieldwork in asthma care contexts to analyze the ways in which asthmatics understand place and time as a factor of illness. The paper focuses on environmental management practices that address the conditions of late industrialism, a context in which chronic health and environmental problems produce individualized modes of care.  Connections among anthropology, history, and public health methodologies will be considered.