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
Citation
(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
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- 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