Infectious Urgency Denis J. Kavanagh First Bull Run (1861) to

First Bull Run (1861) to Antietam (1862)

rapid change in industries due to global developments

drink-and reading

ecstasy and drunkenness

fought for civil rights

Infectious Urgency Denis J. Kavanagh First Bull Run (1861) toHow urgency driven public health communication perpetuates inequities Global public health systems necessarily approach emergent threats with great urgency. As Julie Gerdes argues in Infectious Urgency: Communication and Power in the Making of Global Health Emergencies, that urgency itself functions as a rhetorical logic. And this logic shapes prevention tactics, outbreak communication, and response efforts, often in ways that reify power and