Abstract
The Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspectives, edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Peter J. Brown. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1997. Reviewed by Barbara Herr Harthorn
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Reviewed by Barbara Herr Harthorn, Center for Global Studies/Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, University of California at Santa Barbara
The book consists of two introductory chapters by co-editors Inhorn and Brown, followed by 13 articles on the history, methodology, ethnography, and political economy of such infectious diseases as valley fever (William Harrison), smallpox (Carol Shepherd McClain), malaria (Peter Brown), dengue fever (Jeannine Coreil, Linda Whiteford and Diego Salazar), infertility (Marcia Inhorn and Kimberly Buss), respiratory infections (Karabi Bhattacharyya), intestinal parasites (Norbert Vecchiato), tuberculosis (Mark Nichter), measles (Dorothy Mull), pneumonia (Sara Cody, Dennis Mull, and Dorothy Mull), AIDS (Karina Kielmann) and HIV (Paul Farmer), and cholera (Marilyn Nations and Cristina Monte)
The result is a provocative work that includes important case studies and yet goes far beyond individual cases and raises significant issues in the theoretical and methodological realms as well as in substance. This text exemplifies the specific contribution that medical anthropology informed by and allied with ecological and political economic approaches can make to one of the most pressing health issues of our time
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Reviewed by Barbara Herr Harthorn, Center for Global Studies/Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, University of California at Santa Barbara.
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