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Disease and Social Diversity - The European Impact on the Health of Non-Europeans (Paperback, New Ed)
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Disease and Social Diversity - The European Impact on the Health of Non-Europeans (Paperback, New Ed)
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This book discusses the various social, political, and cultural
forces that shape the distribution of diseases in populations. It
is based on a series of comparative studies of the historical and
contemporary disease patterns of the indigenous peoples of America
north of Mexico, Polynesia, and Australia. The purpose of the
comparisons is to control in a quasi-experimental way certain
crucial variables in order to examine the impact on health of other
variables. The comparisons are made at increasingly more refined
levels of analysis. Thus, once disease ecology has been held
roughly constant, one can see more clearly the ways in which
colonial policy and political institutions have shaped the affairs
of indigenous peoples. And once policy has been held constant, one
can see more clearly how culture can make a difference. And once
culture has been held constant, one can see how gender and status
make a difference.
Kunitz argues that very few broad generalizations adequately
explain the distribution of diseases in populations and that to
truly comprehend such patterns one must understand the local social
context as well the biological characteristics of diseases. The
book is thus an argument for the importance of local knowledge as a
complement to the universalizing sort of knowledge that we
associate with science.
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