The anthropology of infectious disease /

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Author / Creator:	Singer, Merrill, author.
Imprint:	Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2015]
Description:	320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Communicable diseases. Medical anthropology. Communicable Diseases -- ethnology. Communicable diseases. Medical anthropology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10122569

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ISBN:	9781629580449 1629580449 9781629580432 1629580430 9781629580456 9781629580463
Notes:	Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Anthropology and the Large Impact of Small Worlds Chapter 1. Defining the Anthropology of Infectious Disease: Toward a Biocultural/Biosocial Understanding Chapter 2. Denizens of the Microbial World Chapter 3. More than Human Chapter 4. Environmental Disruption, Pluralea Processes, and Infectious Diseases Chapter 5. Emergent, Re-emergent and Drug Resistance Infectious Agents Chapter 6. Infectious Disease Syndemics Chapter 7. Inequality and the Political Ecology and Future of Infections Glossary References Index About the Author. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Anthropology and the Large Impact of Small Worlds
Chapter 1. Defining the Anthropology of Infectious Disease: Toward a Biocultural/Biosocial Understanding
Chapter 2. Denizens of the Microbial World
Chapter 3. More Than Human
Chapter 4. Environmental Disruption, Pluralea Interactions, and Infectious Diseases
Chapter 5. Emergent, Reemergent, and Drug-Resistant Infectious Agents
Chapter 6. Infectious Disease Syndemics
Chapter 7. Inequality, Political Ecology, and the Future of Infectious Diseases
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author

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