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Understanding emerging epidemics [electronic resource]
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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.
| כותר |
Understanding emerging epidemics [electronic resource] : social and political approaches / edited by Ananya Mukherjea. |
|---|---|
| מהדורה |
1st ed. |
| מוציא לאור |
Bingley : Emerald Jai |
| שנה |
2010 |
| הערות |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Intro -- Front cover -- Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Political Economic and Ecological Matters: Gaging the Impact of an Epidemic -- Chapter 1. Capitalism is making us sick: poverty, illness and the SARS crisis in Toronto -- Introduction -- SARS, ecology and capitalist poverty -- Making Ontario susceptible: impacts of neo-liberal restructuring -- Restricted responses -- SARS and work -- SARS and circuses: tourism and Toronto's economic ailments -- Some surgery required -- Solidarity and health: an alternative globalization -- Beyond SARS: the hidden illnesses of class -- References -- Chapter 2. False perceptions and falciparum: A political ecology of malaria in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania -- Introduction -- Malaria in Ngorongo -- Political ecology: a framework for looking past the symptoms -- Maasai pastoralism and health in ecological perspective -- Managing the Maasai and defining the Ngorongoro Conservation Area -- Image, identity, and intervention in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area -- Tourism and conservation: harmonious interactionquest -- Conclusions: Looking forward after looking back -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3. Policy, polity, and the HIV crisis in emerging economies: India and Russia compared -- Introduction -- India -- Russia -- Conclusion - the two going forward -- Notes -- References -- Part II: The Significance and Process of Emergence -- Chapter 4. The concept of emerging infectious disease revisited -- Introduction -- How human infectious diseases emerge and spread -- Current definitions -- The case of angiostrongyliasis -- A localized outbreak of possibly emerging Chagas disease -- Conclusion -- References. Chapter 5. Sounding a public health alarm: producing West Nile virus as a newly emerging infectious disease epidemic -- Introduction -- The emergence of diseases and structures of response -- Foucauldian perspectives in power -- Discourse -- Powersolknowledge -- Power and discipline -- Technologies of power and techniques of power -- Methodology -- Findings -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 6. Emerging and concentrated HIVsolAIDS epidemics and windows of opportunity: prevention and policy pitfalls -- Introduction -- The Vietnamese context -- Morality, politics, and society -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 7. The social politics of pandemic influenzas: the question of (permeable) international, inter-species, and interpersonal boundaries -- Introduction -- Background: what makes a pandemic, and when is flu deadlyquest -- Vaccines, international borders, and interpersonal barriers -- Species boundaries and the role of industrialized meat farming -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part III: The Politics of Rhetoric and Categorization -- Chapter 8. The poetics of American circumcision on the margins of medical necessity -- Introduction -- Historical development from Abraham to America -- A political topography of American circumcision -- Synergies and tensions: religion, medicine and sexual politics -- Policy considerations of circumcision -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9. Of rebels, conformists, and innovators: applying Merton's typology to explore an effective home care policy for the emerging Alzheimer's epidemic -- Introduction -- Establishing context: the evolving Alzheimer's disease epidemic -- Establishing context: Medicare home health policy -- The study -- Merton's typology of individual adaptation -- The conformist -- The innovator -- The rebel. Looking to hospice for guidance -- Making psychosocial care a core element of home health care -- References -- Chapter 10. 'Promoted by Hong Tao, the Chlamydia hypothesis had become well established ...': Understanding the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic - but which onequest -- Introduction -- China's missed chance -- The discovery of the coronavirus -- Findings and notings -- Hong's cognitive brackets -- 'By then ...' -- Repetition and embellishment -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 11. The rhetoric of science and statistics in claims of an autism epidemic -- Introduction -- Claims and counterclaims -- The rhetoric of statistics - ''autism is increasing rapidly and is not rare'' -- Causality from trend statistics: something must be causing the increase -- Medical interventions in childhood -- Cause or coincidencequest -- Whose science do we trustquest -- Requisite social conditions -- Medicalization of childhood ASD -- Scientific agency and parent-experts -- Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part IV: The uses and misuses of an epidemic model for psychiatric and Behavioral issues -- Chapter 12. Bipolar disorder and the medicalization of mood: an epidemics of diagnosisquest -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The 'epidemics' of bipolar disorder -- 3. Medicalization theory -- 4. The medicalization of unhappiness -- 5. The extension of the pathological sphere -- 6. Summary: the sickscape framework -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13. What epidemicquest The social construction of bipolar epidemics -- Introduction: an emerging epidemicquest -- Social constructions or biological illnessquest -- Culprits: subthresholds and spectrums -- Culprit: expanding mania -- Conclusion: what about the drug companiesquest -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References. Chapter 14. The depression epidemic: how shifting definitions and industry practices shape perceptions of depression prevalence in the United States -- Introduction -- Depression epidemiology -- Medicalizing sadness -- Medicalization in practice: the role of industry -- Conclusion: the depression epidemic and its impact on the experience and treatment of depression -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 15. Biomedicalizing mental illness: The case of attention deficit disorder -- Introduction -- Conceptual framework -- The DSM history -- Consequences for the treatment of ADD -- Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 16. Contagious youth: deviance and the management of youth sociality -- Introduction -- Contemporary discourse of the epidemic -- Youth sociality and techniques of intervention -- Conclusion -- References -- Part V: Case study of a newly constructed epidemic: Three Perspectives on obesity -- Chapter 17. A social change model of the obesity epidemic -- Introduction -- Theoretical perspectives -- Overweight, obesity, and comorbidities -- The global obesity epidemic -- Obesity in the United States -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 18. Who says obesity is an epidemicquest How excess weight became an American health crisis -- Introduction -- Background -- Part I: What is an epidemicquest -- Part II: Medical journals and diet books on obesity, 1960s-2000s -- Discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 19. ''Who are you calling 'fat'quest'': the social construction of the obesity epidemic -- Introduction -- Constructing and deconstructing the obesity epidemic -- The ''risk'' of being fat -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References. |
| סדרה |
Advances in medical sociology v. 11 |
| היקף החומר |
1 online resource (xv, 369 pages). |
| שפה |
אנגלית |
| מספר מערכת |
997010703592405171 |
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