Plagues and Epidemics

Infected Spaces Past and Present
Herausgeber: Herring, D Ann; Swedlund, Alan C

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Produktbeschreibung

Until recently, plagues were thought to belong in the ancient past. Now there are deep worries about global pandemics. This book presents views from anthropology about this much publicized and complex problem.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781847885470
• ISBN-10: 1847885470
• Artikelnr.: 28093972

Autorenporträt

D. Ann Herring is Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University, Canada. Alan C. Swedlund is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Inhaltsangabe

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of Contributors1 Plagues and Epidemics in Anthropological PerspectiveD. Ann Herring
McMaster University
Canada
and Alan C. Swedlund
University ofMassachusetts
Amherst2 Ecosyndemics: Global Warming and the Coming Plaguesof the Twenty-first CenturyMerrill Singer
University of Connecticut3 Pressing Plagues: On the Mediated Communicability ofEpidemicsCharles L. Briggs
University ofCalifornia
Berkeley4 On Creating Epidemics
Plagues
and Other WartimeAlarums and Excursions: Enumerating versus EstimatingCivilian Mortality in IraqJames Trostle
Trinity College
Connecticut5 Avian Influenza and the Third Epidemiological TransitionRon Barrett
Macalester College6 Deconstructing an Epidemic: Cholera in GibraltarLawrence A. Sawchuk
University of Toronto
Scarborough
Canada7 The End of a Plague? Tuberculosis in New ZealandJudith Littleton
University ofAuckland
Julie Park
University of Auckland
and Linda Bryder
University of Auckland8 Epidemics and Time: Influenza and Tuberculosis duringand after the 1918-1919 PandemicAndrew Noymer
University of California
Irvine
and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Austria9 Everyday Mortality in the Time of Plague: OrdinaryPeople in Massachusetts before and during the 1918Influenza EpidemicAlan C. Swedlund
University of Massachusetts
Amherst10 The Coming Plague of Avian InfluenzaD. Ann Herring and Stacy Lockerbie
McMaster University
Canada11 Past into Present: History and the Making of Knowledgeabout HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal PeopleMary-Ellen Kelm
Simon Fraser University
Canada12 Accounting for Epidemics: Mathematical Modeling andAnthropologySteven M. Goodreau
University of Washington13 Social Inequalities and Dengue Transmission in LatinAmericaArachu Castro
Harvard University
Yasmin Khawja
Yeshiva University
USA
and James Johnston
University of British Columbia
Canada14 From Plague
an Epidemic Comes: Recounting Disease asContamination and ConfigurationWarwick Anderson
University of Sydney15 Making Plagues Visible: Yellow Fever
Hookworm
andChagas' Disease
1900-1950Ilana Lowy
CNRS Paris16 Metaphors of Malaria Eradication in Cold War MexicoMarcos Cueto
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia17 "Steady with Custom": Mediating HIV Prevention in theTrobriand Islands
Papua New GuineaKatherine Lepani
Australian National University18 Explaining Kuru: Three Ways to Think about an EpidemicShirley Lindenbaum
City University of New YorkReferencesIndex