Understanding Emerging Epidemics
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Understanding Emerging Epidemics
Social and Political Approaches
Mukherjea, Ananya
Emerald Publishing Limited
02/2010
386
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Inglês
9781848550803
15 a 20 dias
Focuses on the contributions that social scientists can make to understanding emerging epidemics, their impact, the threats they pose, and their social and political contexts. This book examines emerging epidemics and offers a theoretical analysis of the use of epidemics and epidemiology as frameworks for understanding these phenomena.
List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Capitalism is making us sick: poverty, illness and the SARS crisis in Toronto. False perceptions and falciparum. Policy, polity, and the HIV crisis in emerging economies: India and Russia compared. The concept of emerging infectious disease revisited. Sounding a public health alarm: producing West Nile virus as a newly emerging infectious disease epidemic. Emerging and concentrated HIV/AIDS epidemics and windows of opportunity: prevention and policy pitfalls. The social politics of pandemic influenzas: the question of (permeable) international, inter-species, and interpersonal boundaries. The poetics of American circumcision on the margins of medical necessity. Of rebels, conformists, and innovators: applying Merton's typology to explore an effective home care policy for the emerging Alzheimer's epidemic. Promoted by Hong Tao, the Chlamydia Hypothesis Had Become Well Established...': Understanding the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Epedemic - But Which One?. The rhetoric of science and statistics in claims of an autism epidemic. Bipolar disorder and the medicalization of mood: an epidemics of diagnosis?. What epidemic? The social construction of bipolar epidemics. The depression epidemic: how shifting definitions and industry practices shape perceptions of depression prevalence in the United States. Biomedicalizing mental illness: The case of attention deficit disorder. Contagious youth: deviance and the management of youth sociality. A social change model of the obesity epidemic. Who says obesity is an epidemic? How excess weight became an American health crisis. "Who are you calling fat'?": the social construction of the obesity epidemic. Advances in medical sociology. Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches. Copyright page.
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Focuses on the contributions that social scientists can make to understanding emerging epidemics, their impact, the threats they pose, and their social and political contexts. This book examines emerging epidemics and offers a theoretical analysis of the use of epidemics and epidemiology as frameworks for understanding these phenomena.
List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Capitalism is making us sick: poverty, illness and the SARS crisis in Toronto. False perceptions and falciparum. Policy, polity, and the HIV crisis in emerging economies: India and Russia compared. The concept of emerging infectious disease revisited. Sounding a public health alarm: producing West Nile virus as a newly emerging infectious disease epidemic. Emerging and concentrated HIV/AIDS epidemics and windows of opportunity: prevention and policy pitfalls. The social politics of pandemic influenzas: the question of (permeable) international, inter-species, and interpersonal boundaries. The poetics of American circumcision on the margins of medical necessity. Of rebels, conformists, and innovators: applying Merton's typology to explore an effective home care policy for the emerging Alzheimer's epidemic. Promoted by Hong Tao, the Chlamydia Hypothesis Had Become Well Established...': Understanding the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Epedemic - But Which One?. The rhetoric of science and statistics in claims of an autism epidemic. Bipolar disorder and the medicalization of mood: an epidemics of diagnosis?. What epidemic? The social construction of bipolar epidemics. The depression epidemic: how shifting definitions and industry practices shape perceptions of depression prevalence in the United States. Biomedicalizing mental illness: The case of attention deficit disorder. Contagious youth: deviance and the management of youth sociality. A social change model of the obesity epidemic. Who says obesity is an epidemic? How excess weight became an American health crisis. "Who are you calling fat'?": the social construction of the obesity epidemic. Advances in medical sociology. Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches. Copyright page.
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