Plot
DIS-EASE is a feature-length documentary about how we imagine disease, and how that affects what we do when we encounter illness, outbreaks, doctors, treatments, and disability in real life. It dives deep into the weird, wild archives of medical imaging, public health messaging, and pop-culture outbreak narratives to understand how ideas have moved between science, science fiction, and political ideology over the past century. (Yes, this is a film that covers both antibiotic resistance and the persistence of zombie apocalypse films.) Ultimately, DIS-EASE is a provocation to re-think how we define both the "public" and "health" in public health - who is included, what counts as care, and what it means to be sick or well in a world perpetually on the brink of collapse.
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Cast
Priscilla Wald
Self
Hannah Landecker
Self
Keiji Fukuda
Self
Sonia Shah
Self
Nancy Tomes
Self
Johanna Hedva
Self
Sridhar Venkatapuram
Self
Dora Vargha
Self
Nayan Shah
Self
Patricia J. Williams
Self
Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Self
Anjuli Raza Kolb
Self
Lioba Hirsch
Self
Edna Bonhomme
Self
Christos Lynteris
Self
Patricia Kingori
Self
Jacqueline Patterson
Self
Rev. Leo Woodberry
Self
Bharat Venkat
Self
Iona Walker
Self
Elena Semino
Self
Dana Brown
Self
Agnes Binagwaho
Self
Shantunu Nundy
Self
