Peter J. Brown, Marcia C. Inhorn

The Anthropology of Infectious Disease (eBook, PDF)

International Health Perspectives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book assembles the growing scholarship on the study of infectious disease and infectious disease eradication programmes into one important volume.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134386420
• Artikelnr.: 39998485

Autorenporträt

Peter J. Brown, Marcia C. Inhorn

Inhaltsangabe

1: Anthropologies
1: Introduction
2: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease
2: Histories
3: Dangerous Dirt: Paleopathology of Valley Fever and the Biopolitics of Race
4: A New Look at an Old Disease: Smallpox and Biotechnology
5: Culture and the Global Resurgence of Malaria
3: Methods
6: The Household Ecology of Disease Transmission: Dengue Fever in the Dominican Republic
7: Infertility, Infection, and latrogenesis in Egypt: The Anthropological Epidemiology of Blocked Tubes
8: Key Informants, Pile Sorts, or Surveys? Comparing Behavioral Research Methods for the Study of Acute Respiratory Infections in West Bengal
4: Ethnographies
9: "Digestive Worms": Ethnomedical Approaches to Intestinal Parasitism in Southern Ethiopia
10: Illness Semantics and International Health: The Weak Lungs-Tuberculosis Complex in the Philippines
11: The Sitala Syndrome: The Cultural Context of Measles Mortality in Pakistan
12: Knowing Pneumonia: Mothers, Doctors, and Sick Children in Pakistan
5: Political Economies
13: "Prostitution," "Risk," and "Responsibility": Paradigms of AIDS Prevention and Women's Identities in Thika, Kenya
14: Ethnography, Social Analysis, and the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted HIV Infection Among Poor Women in Haiti
15: "I'm Not Dog, No!": Cries of Resistance Against Cholera Control Campaigns