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Record W2096900870 · doi:10.1177/0011392101496003

Microbes and Us

2001· article· en· W2096900870 on OpenAlex
Ellen M. Gee

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCurrent Sociology · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicZoonotic diseases and public health
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOptimismIndividualismPublic healthEnvironmental ethicsEpidemiological transitionBiologySociologyDevelopment economicsPolitical scienceEcologyDeveloping countrySocial psychologyLawPsychologyEconomicsMedicine

Abstract

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This article provides an overview of microbes (viruses and pathogenic bacteria) in human history, with special focus on their emerging threat in societies that had appeared to have conquered them as significant takers of life. The relationship between microbes and mortality level is discussed, with reference to both developed and developing societies, which display different historical patterns regarding the timing and tempo of reductions in mortality due to microbes. An overview of the epidemiological transition theory - which has until recently guided current thinking about the mortality-microbe relationship - is presented in the light of current trends that counter its view of the diminishing role of microbes over time. Four factors leading to a re-examination of epidemiological theory’s optimism about the eventual control of microbes are identified. Consequences of microbe resurgence in the West, particularly in Canada, are discussed. Concerns about the Canadian reaction to microbes - which focuses upon individualist responses - and to threats to the health care system - which ignore public health - are raised.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.618
Threshold uncertainty score0.560

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.367
Teacher spread0.325 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it