Gebundenes Buch

The Anthropology of Epidemics

Beschreibung

The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a transformational impact on social life whilst at the same time functioning as catalysts of shifts and ruptures as regards human-non/human relations.

Autor

Ann H. Kelly is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, UK, and the Co-Deputy Director of the King's Global Health Institute. Her work focuses on the socio-material practices of global health research and innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. Frédéric Keck is Director of Research at CNRS, attached to the Laboratory for Social Anthropology in Paris, France. He has conducted researches on the genealogy of social sciences, the ethnography of zoonotic diseases, and the microbial history of collections of human remains. Christos Lynteris is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK. His work focuses on the anthropological and historical examination of infectious disease epidemics. He is the author of The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China (2012) and Ethnographic Plague (2016).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781138616677
• ISBN-10: 1138616672
• Artikelnr.: 55157941