Introduction
Part One - The First Transition
1: The Prehistoric Baseline
2: Revolution and the Domestication of Pathogens
Part Two - The Second Transition
3: Why Germ Theory Didn't Matter
4: The Worst of Both Worlds
Part Three - The Third Transition
5: New Diseases, Raw and Cooked
6: Inevitable Resistance
Conclusion
References
Ron Barrett is an Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at
Macalester College. His research concerns the social aspects of
infectious diseases, with an ethnographic focus on northern and
western India. His work on the biosocial aspects of leprosy and
other socially stigmatized diseases can be found in, Aghor
Medicine: Pollution, Death, ad Healing in Northern India
(University of California Press), which was recently awarded the
Wellcome Medal for Medical
Anthropology by the Royal Anthropological Institute. His currently
the primary investigator for an NSF-sponsored research on the
relationship between social support networks and health-seeking
for
influenza-like illnesses in a western Indian slum community.
Professor Barrett is co-editor of a textbook reader, Understanding
and Applying Medical Anthropology (McGraw Hill). He is also a
registered nurse with clinical experience in hospice,
neuro-intensive care, and brain injury rehabilitation. George J.
Armelagos is Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology at Emory
University. His research interests have concerned the
paleopathology and evolution of diet and disease in prehistoric
human populations. His research has involved the osteological and
pathological analysis of mummified and skeletal populations from
North Africa and North America, tracing health changes associated
with
the Neolithic transition to sedentism and agriculture. He has also
published osteopathic and phylogenetic evidence in support of the
New World origin of syphilis. Professor Armelagos is the former
president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists
(AAPA). He is a recipient of the Franz Boas Award (American
Anthropological Association), the Charles Darwin Award (AAPA), and
the Viking Medal (Wenner Gren Foundation).
Its core ideas are important and need to be widely disseminated, to
help medical professionals and biomedical researchers look beyond
the borders of their disciplines, but also to improve popular
understanding and inform social policy.
*Danny Yee, Danny Yee's Book Reviews*
By taking an historical perspective, the authors of this book are
able to weave together a more complex and interesting account of
how social, economic, environmental and technological factors have
created todays global disease ecology
*British Ecological Society Bulletin*
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