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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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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

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>

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Peter J. Brown, Marcia C. Inhorn

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