Is there really such a thing as "one health"? Thinking about a more than human world from the perspective of cultural anthropology

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue , 2015, Pages 5-11

  Wolf, Meike ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cultural anthropology; Disease ecologies; Infectious diseases; Microbial globalization; One health

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MODERNITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONFLICT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ETHNOGRAPHY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTEGRATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIOLOGY; WELLBEING; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ECOLOGY; MICROFLORA; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ECOLOGY; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH;

EID: 84923370949     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.06.018     Document Type: Article

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