As a geographical tool, epidemiology represents a distinct way of seeing and knowing disease. Used as a governmental rationality to control animal disease, changes in epidemiological practice have been understood as technological evolutions. In doing so, however, this view disguises the ‘messy realities’ of epidemiology, the relationship between different epidemiological practices, and the work required to make epidemiology ‘matter’. Drawing on a case study of the management of bovine tuberculosis in England and Wales, the paper examines how epidemiological practices are developed, replaced and contested. By focusing on practices of epidemiological record keeping and mapping, the paper argues that epidemiology arranges different spatialities, materialities, and subjectivities in order to enact the presence of animal disease. The paper tracks changes to these arrangements over time, showing how they seek to redefine the appropriate people, places and practices that allow disease to be seen. In doing so, however, the paper shows how versions of epidemiology deposit ‘residues of practice’ that influence how new epidemiological arrangements are received and negotiated in use. A central theme to these negotiations is an attempt to accommodate complexity by employing a caring and/or careful approach to epidemiology, as revealed through the practices of ‘re‐recording’ and ‘re‐mapping’. Whilst this demonstrates the contextual and in‐situ nature of epidemiology, highlighting the contribution of a caring/careful epidemiology also serves to make these practices relevant for future iterations of epidemiological practice by making them 'matter'.

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绘制仔细的流行病学：动物疾病管理中的空间性、重要性和主观性

作为一种地理工具，流行病学代表了一种观察和了解疾病的独特方式。作为控制动物疾病的政府理性，流行病学实践的变化已被理解为技术进化。然而，在这样做时，这种观点掩盖了流行病学的“混乱现实”、不同流行病学实践之间的关系以及使流行病学“重要”所需的工作。该论文借鉴了英格兰和威尔士牛结核病管理的案例研究，探讨了流行病学实践是如何发展、取代和争论的。通过关注流行病学记录保存和制图的实践，该论文认为流行病学安排了不同的空间性、物质性和主观性，以实现动物疾病的存在。该论文追踪了这些安排随时间的变化，展示了他们如何寻求重新定义允许疾病被发现的合适的人、地点和做法。然而，在这样做的过程中，本文展示了流行病学的版本如何沉积“实践的残余”，影响新的流行病学安排如何在使用中被接受和协商。这些谈判的一个中心主题是试图通过对流行病学采取关怀和/或谨慎的方法来适应复杂性，正如通过“重新记录”和“重新映射”的做法所揭示的那样。虽然这证明了流行病学的背景和原位性质，但强调关怀/谨慎的流行病学的贡献也有助于使这些实践与未来流行病学实践的迭代相关，使它们变得“重要”。