Anthropology of Infectious Disease

Peter J. Brown, Marcia C. Inhorn

• 1: Anthropologies; 1: Introduction; 2: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease; 2: Histories; 3: Dangerous Dirt: Paleopathology of Valley Fever and the Biopolitics of Race; 4: A New Look at an Old Disease: Smallpox and Biotechnology; 5: Culture and the Global Resurgence of Malaria; 3: Methods; 6: The Household Ecology of Disease Transmission: Dengue Fever in the Dominican Republic; 7: Infertility, Infection, and latrogenesis in Egypt: The Anthropological Epidemiology of Blocked Tubes; 8: Key Informants, Pile Sorts, or Surveys? Comparing Behavioral Research Methods for the Study of Acute Respiratory Infections in West Bengal; 4: Ethnographies; 9: “Digestive Worms”: Ethnomedical Approaches to Intestinal Parasitism in Southern Ethiopia; 10: Illness Semantics and International Health: The Weak Lungs-Tuberculosis Complex in the Philippines; 11: The Sitala Syndrome: The Cultural Context of Measles Mortality in Pakistan; 12: Knowing Pneumonia: Mothers, Doctors, and Sick Children in Pakistan; 5: Political Economies; 13: “Prostitution,” “Risk,” and “Responsibility”: Paradigms of AIDS Prevention and Women's Identities in Thika, Kenya; 14: Ethnography, Social Analysis, and the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted HIV Infection Among Poor Women in Haiti; 15: “I'm Not Dog, No!”: Cries of Resistance Against Cholera Control Campaigns

"The book should serve as a useful reference to students and scholars of international health...I would recommend it as an entry point into the study of current international health issues.""One could easily teach a course in medical anthropology or public health issues on the basis of this volume, which makes it a doubly-valuable book."