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Plagues and Epidemics - Infected Spaces Past and Present (Hardcover)
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Plagues and Epidemics - Infected Spaces Past and Present (Hardcover)
Series: Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series
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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 modeling 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.
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