The Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspectives
Author:   Peter J. Brown ,  Marcia C. Inhorn
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   Vol 4
ISBN:  

9789056995560


Pages:   512
Publication Date:   23 January 1998
Format:   Paperback
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This volume examines anthropological contributions to the study of infectious disease and to the study of actual infectious disease eradication programmes. Chapters explore co-evolution of genes and cultural traits; the cultural construction of ""disease"" and how these models influence health-seeking behaviour; cultural adaptive strategies to infectious disease problems; the ways in which ethnography sheds light on epidemiological patterns of infectious disease; the practical and ethical dilemmas that anthropologists face by participating in infectious disease programmes; and the political ecology of infectious disease problems.

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Author:   Peter J. Brown ,  Marcia C. Inhorn
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   Vol 4
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.950kg
ISBN:  

9789056995560


ISBN 10:   9056995561
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   23 January 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Dangerous dirt - paleopathology of valley fever and the biopolitics of race; a new look at an old disease - smallpox and biotechnology; culture and the global resurgence of malaria; the household ecology of disease transmission - dengue fever in the Dominican Republic; infertility, infection and iatrogenesis in Egypt - the anthropological epidemiology of blocked tubes; key informants, pile sorts or surveys?; comparing behavioural research methods for the study of acute respiratory infections; ""Digestive Worms""- ethnomedical approaches to intestinal parasitism in Southern Ethiopia."

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The book should serve as a useful reference to students and scholars of international health...I would recommend it as an entry point into the study of current international health issues. <br>-Isaac K. Nyamongo, Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya of American Journal of Human Biology <br>


The book should serve as a useful reference to students and scholars of international health...I would recommend it as an entry point into the study of current international health issues. -Isaac K. Nyamongo, Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya of American Journal of Human Biology


The book should serve as a useful reference to students and scholars of international health...I would recommend it as an entry point into the study of current international health issues. -Isaac K. Nyamongo, Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya of American Journal of Human Biology


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Peter J. Brown, Marcia C. Inhorn

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