| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 417 pages) : illustrations |
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Wenner gren international symposium series |
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Wenner-Gren Center international symposium series.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
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The authors take us to places where epidemics are erupting, waning, or gone, and to other places where they have not yet arrived, but where a frightening story line is already in place. They explore public health bureaucracies and political arenas where the power lies to make decisions about what is, and is not, an epidemic. They look back into global history to uncover disease trends and look ahead to a future of expanding plagues within the context of climate change |
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The chapters are written from a range of perspectives, from the science of modeling epidemics to the social science of understanding them. Patterns emerge when people are engulfed by diseases labeled as epidemics but which have the hallmarks of plague. There are cycles of shame and blame, stigma, isolation of the sick, fear of contagion, and end-of-the-world scenarios. Plague, it would seem, is still among us. --Book Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Epidemics -- History.
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Plague -- History.
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Famines -- History.
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Environmentally induced diseases.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Herring, Ann, 1951-
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Swedlund, Alan C.
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| ISBN |
9781847887566 electronic bk |
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1847887562 electronic bk |
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9781847887559 individual ebk |
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1847887554 individual ebk |
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