Humans in a World of Microbes: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease

A Companion to Medical Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 251-270

  Brown, Peter J ^a,b   Armelagos, George J ^a   Maes, Kenneth C ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Application of specific medical anthropological concepts and biocultural etiology; Cultural models, underlying decent and non discriminatory care; Culture, three major roles determining patterns of disease and death in population; Disease ecology, consequence of four interdependent developments; Episodes of infectious disease self limiting; Health and behavior, and humans in a world of microbes anthropology of infectious disease; HIV AIDS epidemic in Africa interactions, biology, behavior, political economy and culture; Infections, and microbes pathogenic biological characteristics; Jewkes (2006), shift in focus in effort to reduce AIDS related stigmatization; Sexual contact, route of infection for HIV AIDS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885554204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395303.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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