The Anthropology of Epidemics

• Main Authors: Kelly, Ann H., Keck, Frédéric, Lynteris, Christos
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2019; Knowledge Unlatched GmbH; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
• Subjects: Anthropology; Biology, life sciences; Bos Taurus Indicus; Clinical and internal medicine; Communicable diseases; Communicable diseases > Social aspects; Complex Multivalent Relationships; disaster medicine; disasters; Diseases and disorders; emergency medicine; epidemic; epidemic simulations; Epidemics; Epidemics > Social aspects; Epidemiology; Epidemiology and Medical statistics; Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis; global health; Health & Medical Anthropology; health anthropology; historical ontology; HIV City; Human biology; Infectious and contagious diseases; Infectious Diseases; Laying Hen Farm; Mathematics and Science; medical anthropology; medical catastrophes; Medicine and Nursing; Medicine: general issues; MERS; National Library; natural disasters; pandemics; Population Health; Public health; Public health > Anthropological aspects; Public health and preventive medicine; Rural Northern Vietnam; Social Science; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology; viral; virus; Young Men; Zika Epidemic; zoonoses; zoonosis; emergency medicine; Burrow Systems; infectious diseases; Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis; Global Health Security; natural disasters; HIV City; virus; epidemiology; medical catastrophes; Rural Northern Vietnam; health anthropology; Young Men; National Aid Control; Complex Multivalent Relationships; Global Health Emergency; National Library; public health; Standard Operating Plans; global health; Epidemic Simulation; epidemic; disasters; Zika Virus; zoonoses; disaster medicine; Bac Giang Province; historical ontology; Hemorrhagic Fevers; zoonosis; Zika Epidemic; epidemics; Bos Taurus Indicus; Molecular Epidemiology; Wu Liande; medical anthropology; UK's National Health Service; viral; Patient Support Groups; pandemics; epidemic simulations; MERS; Laying Hen Farm; National Aid Control Council; Ebola Epidemic
• ISBN: 1138616672; 9781138616677; 9780367581947; 0367581949; 0429868073; 9780429868085; 0429461895; 9780429868078; 0429868081; 9780429868061; 0429868065; 9780429461897
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429461897

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.