Plagues and epidemics infected spaces past and present - Herring, Ann 1951-; Swedlund, Alan C. (Oxford, England Berg, 2010)
Plagues and epidemics in anthropological perspective D. Ann Herring and Alan C. Swedlung -- Ecosyndemics : global warming and the coming plagues of the twenty-first century Merrill Singer -- Pressing plagues : on the mediated communicability of virtual epidemics Charles L. Briggs -- On creating epidemics, plagues and other wartime alarums and excursions : enumerating versus estimating civilian mortality in Iraq James Trostle -- Avian influenza and the third epidemiological transition Ron Barrett -- Deconstructing an epidemic : cholera in Gibraltar Lawrence A. Sawchuk -- The end of plague : TB in New Zealand Judith Littleton, Julie Park and Linda Bryder Epidemics and time : influenza and tuberculosis during and after the 1918-19 pandemic Andrew Noymer -- Everyday mortality in the time of plague : ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances in Massachusetts before and during the 1918 flu epidemic -- Alan C. Swedlund -- The coming plague of avian influenza D. Ann Herring and Stacy Lockerbie -- Past into present : history and the making of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal people Mary-Ellen Kelm -- Accounting for epidemics : mathematical modeling and anthropology Steven M. Goodreau -- Social inequalities and dengue transmission in Latin America Arachu Castro, Yasmin Khawja, James Johnston -- From plague, an epidemic comes : recounting disease as contamination and configuration Warwick Anderson -- Making plagues visible : yellow fever, hookworm, Chagas Disease, 1900-1950 Ilana Lowy -- Malaria eradication's metaphors in cold war Mexico Marcos Cueto -- 'Steady with custom' : mediating HIV prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea Katherine Lepani -- Explaining kuru : three ways to think about an epidemic Shirley Lindenbaum .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Epidemics -- History; Plague -- History; Famines -- History; Environmentally induced diseases