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An Anthropology of Infectious Disease:

International Health Perspectives
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Taylor & Francis Group, 1997 - Medical - 495 pages
Anthropological contributions to the study of infectious disease and to the study of actual infectious disease eradication programmes have rarely been collected in one volume. In the era of AIDS and the global resurgance of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, there is widespread interest and concern about the cultural, ecological and political factors that are directly related to the increased prevalence of infectious disease. In this book, the authors have assembled the growing scholarship in one volume. Chapters explore the coevolution of genes and cultural traits; the cultural construction of 'disease' and how these models influence health-seeking behaviour; cultural adaptive strategies to infectious disease problems; the ways in which ethnography sheds light on epidemiological patterns of infectious disease; the practical and ethical dilemmas that anthropologists face by participating in infectious disease programmes; and the political ecology of infectious disease.

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About the author (1997)

Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr., Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University. Her many books include "Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion, and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt and Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt.

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TitleAn Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspectives
Volume 4 of Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology and International Health Series
Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology Series
Volume 4 of ICC Publication
AuthorsMarcia Claire Inhorn, Peter J. Brown
EditorsMarcia Claire Inhorn, Peter J. Brown
Editionillustrated
PublisherTaylor & Francis Group, 1997
ISBN9056995561, 9789056995560
Length495 pages
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Medical / Diseases
Medical / Health Care Delivery
Medical / Infectious Diseases
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
Social Science / Anthropology / General
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