Plagues and epidemics : infected spaces past and present /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Herring, Ann, 1951-, Swedlund, Alan C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2010.
Colección:Wenner-Gren Center international symposium series.
Temas:
Epidemics > History.
Plague > History.
Famines > History.
Environmentally induced diseases.
Peste > Histoire.
Famines > Histoire.
Maladies de l'environnement.
Épidémies > Histoire.
Illness & addiction: social aspects.
Medical anthropology.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
MEDICAL > Epidemiology.
Environmentally induced diseases
Epidemics
Famines
Plague
Health and Wellbeing.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Plagues and Epidemics in Anthropological Perspective / Alan C. Swedlund
  • 2. Ecosyndemics: Global Warming and the Coming Plagues of the Twenty-first Century / Merrill Singer
  • 3. Pressing Plagues: On the Mediated Communicability of Virtual Epidemics / Charles L. Briggs
  • 4. On Creating Epidemics, Plagues, and Other Wartime Alarums and Excursions: Enumerating versus Estimating Civilian Mortality in Iraq / James Trostle
  • 5. Avian Influenza and the Third Epidemiological Transition / Ron Barrett
  • 6. Deconstructing an Epidemic: Cholera in Gibraltar / Lawrence A. Sawchuk
  • 7. End of a Plague? Tuberculosis in New Zealand / Linda Bryder
  • 8. Epidemics and Time: Influenza and Tuberculosis during and after the 1918-1919 Pandemic / Andrew Noymer
  • 9. Everyday Mortality in the Time of Plague: Ordinary People in Massachusetts before and during the 1918 Influenza Epidemic / Alan C. Swedlund
  • 10. Coming Plague of Avian Influenza / Stacy Lockerbie
  • 11. Past into Present: History and the Making of Knowledge about HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal People / Mary-Ellen Kelm
  • 12. Accounting for Epidemics: Mathematical Modeling and Anthropology / Steven M. Goodreau
  • 13. Social Inequalities and Dengue Transmission in Latin America / James Johnston
  • 14. From Plague, an Epidemic Comes: Recounting Disease as Contamination and Configuration / Warwick Anderson
  • 15. Making Plagues Visible: Yellow Fever, Hookworm, and Chagas' Disease, 1900-1950 / Ilana Lowy
  • 16. Metaphors of Malaria Eradication in Cold War Mexico / Marcos Cueto
  • 17. "Steady with Custom": Mediating HIV Prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea / Katherine Lepani
  • 18. Explaining Kuru: Three Ways to Think about an Epidemic / Shirley Lindenbaum.

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