| Description |
1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Anthropology and the Large Impact of Small Worlds -- Defining the Anthropology of Infectious Disease: Toward a Biocultural/Biosocial Understanding -- Denizens of the Microbial World -- More than Human -- Environmental Disruption, Pluralea Processes, and Infectious Diseases -- Emergent, Re-emergent and Drug Resistance Infectious Agents -- Infectious Disease Syndemics -- Inequality, Political Ecology and Future of Infections |
| Summary |
"This book synthesizes the flourishing field of anthropology of infectious disease in a critical, biocultural framework. Leading medical anthropologist Merrill Singer holistically unites the behaviors of microorganisms and the activities of complex social systems, showing how we exist with pathogenic agents of disease in a complex process of co-evolution. He also connects human diseases to larger ecosystems and various other species that are future sources of new human infections. Anthropology of Infectious Disease integrates and advances research in this growing, multifaceted area and offers an ideal supplement to courses in anthropology, public health, development studies, and related fields"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from resource home page (ebrary, viewed March 7, 2016) |
| Subject |
Communicable diseases
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Medical anthropology.
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Communicable Diseases -- ethnology
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Communicable Diseases
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Environment
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Socioeconomic Factors
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Anthropology, Medical
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
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MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Communicable diseases
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Medical anthropology
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Ethnomedizin
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Infektionskrankheit
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Epidemie
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Ätiologie
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Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781629580456 |
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1629580457 |
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9781629580463 |
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1629580465 |
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9781315434728 |
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1315434725 |
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