Epidemiology and Culture (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology) Review

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Paperback. Pub Date: 2005 Pages: 460 Publisher: Camidge. University Press 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. eastfeeding. and adolescent smok...