Epidemiology and Culture - James A. Trostle

Epidemiology and Culture

Buch | Softcover
230 Seiten
2005
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-79389-6 (ISBN)
28,65 inkl. MwSt
This book shows how practitioners in the emerging field of 'cultural epidemiology' describe human health, communicate with diverse audiences, and intervene to improve health and prevent disease. By unpacking many common disease risks and epidemiologic categories, it reveals unexamined assumptions and shows how sociocultural context influences measurement of disease.
This book shows how practitioners in the emerging field of 'cultural epidemiology' describe human health, communicate with diverse audiences, and intervene to improve health and prevent disease. It uses textual and statistical portraits of disease to describe past and present collaborations between anthropology and epidemiology. Interpreting epidemiology as a cultural practice helps to reveal the ways in which measurement, causal thinking, and intervention design are all influenced by belief, habit, and theories of power. By unpacking many common disease risks and epidemiologic categories, this book reveals unexamined assumptions and shows how sociocultural context influences measurement of disease. Examples include studies of epilepsy, cholera, mortality on the Titanic, breastfeeding, and adolescent smoking. The book describes methods as varied as observing individuals, measuring social networks, and compiling data from death certificates. It argues that effective public health interventions must work more often and better at the level of entire communities.

James A. Trostle is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Urban Initiatives at Trinity College, Hartford. He has worked in more than 35 countries during his career in international health, and has been invited to lecture in several others. He has co-authored, in Spanish, De la Investigación en Salud a la Política: La Difícil Traducción (From Health Research to Policy: The Difficult Translation). He has published in Health, Policy and Planning; Neurology; The Annual Review of Anthropology; Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; and most frequently in Social Science & Medicine. Professor Trostle has been a Temporary Advisor to the World Health Organization, and presently sits on a WHO Task Force on Research to Policy as well as on the WHO Human Reproduction Programme Regional Advisory Panel for the Americas.

1. Introduction; 2. The origins of an integrated approach in anthropology and epidemiology; 3. Disease patterns and assumptions: unpacking variables; 4. Cultural issues in measurement and bias; 5. Anthropological contributions to the study of cholera; 6. Anthropological and epidemiological collaboration to help communities become healthier; 7. Perceiving and representing risk; 8. Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.2.2005
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology ; Vol.13
Zusatzinfo 10 Tables, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 228 mm
Gewicht 320 g
Themenwelt Studium Querschnittsbereiche Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-521-79389-0 / 0521793890
ISBN-13 978-0-521-79389-6 / 9780521793896
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