The Anthropology of Epidemics
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 whil...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2019
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| Series: | Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
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| Online Access: | OAPEN Library: download the publication OAPEN Library: description of the publication |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (194 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9780429461897 9780429868085 9780367581947 9781138616677 |
| Access: | Open Access |