1st Edition

Anthropology of Infectious Disease

By Merrill Singer Copyright 2015
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Introduction; 1: Defining the Anthropology of Infectious Disease; 2: Denizens of the Microbial World; 3: More Than Human; 4: Environmental Disruption, Pluralea Interactions, and Infectious Diseases; 5: Emergent, Reemergent, and Drug-Resistant Infectious Agents; 6: Infectious Disease Syndemics; 7: Inequality, Political Ecology, and the Future of Infectious Diseases

Biography

Merrill Singer