The Anthropology of Epidemics
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Contributor(s)
Kelly, Ann H. (editor)
Keck, Frédéric (editor)
Lynteris, Christos (editor)
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. 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. Bearing a particular mark on subject areas and questions which have recently come to shape developments in anthropological thinking, the volume brings epidemics to the forefront of anthropological debate, as an exemplary arena for social scientific study and analysis.
Keywords
epidemiology; epidemics; epidemic; disasters; medical anthropology; health anthropology; infectious diseases; zoonosis; zoonoses; pandemics; historical ontology; emergency medicine; disaster medicine; virus; viral; medical catastrophes; natural disasters; public health; global health; epidemic simulations; Young Men; HIV City; MERS; National Library; Laying Hen Farm; Rural Northern Vietnam; Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis; Complex Multivalent Relationships; Bos Taurus Indicus; Zika EpidemicDOI
10.4324/9780429461897ISBN
9780429868085, 9780367581947, 9780429868061, 9780429868078, 9781138616677, 9780429461897, 9780429868085OCN
1082854752Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
Oxford, 2019Grantor
Imprint
RoutledgeSeries
Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology,Classification
Epidemiology and Medical statistics
Human biology
Anthropology
Infectious and contagious diseases