Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches

Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches

ISBN: 978-1-84855-080-3, eISBN: 978-1-84855-081-0

ISSN: 1057-6290

Publication date: 21 April 2010

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(2010), "Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches", Mukherjea, A. (Ed.) Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches (Advances in Medical Sociology, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, p. iii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1057-6290(2010)0000011026

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Advances in medical sociology
Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches
Copyright page
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Capitalism is making us sick: poverty, illness and the SARS crisis in Toronto
False perceptions and falciparum
Policy, polity, and the HIV crisis in emerging economies: India and Russia compared
The concept of emerging infectious disease revisited
Sounding a public health alarm: producing West Nile virus as a newly emerging infectious disease epidemic
Emerging and concentrated HIV/AIDS epidemics and windows of opportunity: prevention and policy pitfalls
The social politics of pandemic influenzas: the question of (permeable) international, inter-species, and interpersonal boundaries
The poetics of American circumcision on the margins of medical necessity
Of rebels, conformists, and innovators: applying Merton's typology to explore an effective home care policy for the emerging Alzheimer's epidemic
‘Promoted by Hong Tao, the Chlamydia Hypothesis Had Become Well Established...': Understanding the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Epedemic - But Which One?
The rhetoric of science and statistics in claims of an autism epidemic
Bipolar disorder and the medicalization of mood: an epidemics of diagnosis?
What epidemic? The social construction of bipolar epidemics
The depression epidemic: how shifting definitions and industry practices shape perceptions of depression prevalence in the United States
Biomedicalizing mental illness: The case of attention deficit disorder
Contagious youth: deviance and the management of youth sociality
A social change model of the obesity epidemic
Who says obesity is an epidemic? How excess weight became an American health crisis
“Who are you calling ‘fat’?”: the social construction of the obesity epidemic