Carolin Mezes (Editor) Carolin Mezes is a postdoctoral fellow at Bielefeld University.Sven Opitz (Editor) Sven Opitz is professor of political sociology at Philipps University Marburg.Andrea Wiegeshoff (Editor) Andrea Wiegeshoff is an affiliated researcher in the Department of Modern History at the University of Marburg and an adjunct lecturer at the universities of St. Gallen and Bonn.

Ecologies of Disease Control ultimately underscores the historical and structural implementation and limits of applying ecological thinking to disease control at the local and global scales. Collectively, the authors demonstrate that health security and the ecological framework exist within a broader historical terrain and continuity. Medical and scientific researchers cannot afford to forget that history if they truly want to prevent and control disease.