The Anthropology of Epidemics

The Anthropology of Epidemics
ISBN-10
0429868073
ISBN-13
9780429868078
Category
Social Science
Pages
194
Language
English
Published
2019-01-15
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Ann H. Kelly, Frédéric Keck, Christos Lynteris

Description

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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