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050 00 $aRA649$b.N55 2010
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245 00 $aPlagues and epidemics :$binfected spaces past and present /$cedited by D. Ann Herring and Alan C. Swedlund.
250 $aEnglish ed.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bBerg,$c2010.
300 $axii, 417 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aWenner-Gren international symposium series
520 $a"Until recently, plagues were thought to belong in the ancient past. Now there are deep worries about global pandemics. This book presents views from anthropology about this much publicized and complex problem. The authors take us to places where epidemics are erupting, waning, or gone and to other places where they have not yet arrived, but where a frightening story-line is already in place. They explore public health bureaucracies and political arenas where the power lies to make decisions about what is, and is not, an epidemic. They look back into global history to uncover disease trends and look ahead to a future of expanding plagues within the context of climate change. The chapters are written from a range of perspectives, from the science of modelling epidemics to the social science of understanding them. Patterns emerge when people are engulfed by diseases labeled as epidemics but which have the hallmarks of plague. There are cycles of shame and blame, stigma, isolation of the sick, fear of contagion, and end-of-the-world scenarios. Plague, it would seem, is still among us"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tPlagues and epidemics in anthropological perspective /$rD. Ann Herring and Alan C. Swedlung --$tEcosyndemics : global warming and the coming plagues of the twenty-first century /$rMerrill Singer --$tPressing plagues : on the mediated communicability of virtual epidemics /$rCharles L. Briggs --$tOn creating epidemics, plagues and other wartime alarums and excursions : enumerating versus estimating civilian mortality in Iraq /$rJames Trostle --$tAvian influenza and the third epidemiological transition /$rRon Barrett --$tDeconstructing an epidemic : cholera in Gibraltar /$rLawrence A. Sawchuk --$tThe end of plague : TB in New Zealand /$rJudith Littleton, Julie Park and Linda Bryder /$tEpidemics and time : influenza and tuberculosis during and after the 1918-19 pandemic /$rAndrew Noymer --$tEveryday mortality in the time of plague : ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances in Massachusetts before and during the 1918 flu epidemic --$rAlan C. Swedlund --$tThe coming plague of avian influenza /$rD. Ann Herring and Stacy Lockerbie --$tPast into present : history and the making of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal people /$rMary-Ellen Kelm --$tAccounting for epidemics : mathematical modeling and anthropology /$rSteven M. Goodreau --$tSocial inequalities and dengue transmission in Latin America /$rArachu Castro, Yasmin Khawja, James Johnston --$tFrom plague, an epidemic comes : recounting disease as contamination and configuration /$rWarwick Anderson --$tMaking plagues visible : yellow fever, hookworm, Chagas Disease, 1900-1950 /$rIlana Löwy --$tMalaria eradication's metaphors in cold war Mexico /$rMarcos Cueto --$t'Steady with custom' : mediating HIV prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea /$rKatherine Lepani --$tExplaining kuru : three ways to think about an epidemic /$rShirley Lindenbaum .
650 0 $aEpidemics$xHistory.
650 0 $aPlague$xHistory.
650 0 $aFamines$xHistory.
650 0 $aEnvironmentally induced diseases.
650 12 $aDisease Outbreaks$xhistory.
650 12 $aPlague$xhistory.
650 22 $aEnvironmental Illness.
700 1 $aHerring, Ann,$d1951-
700 1 $aSwedlund, Alan C.
830 0 $aWenner-Gren Center international symposium series.