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Epidemics and the Modern World uses "biographies" of epidemics such as plague, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS to explore the impact of diseases on society from the

Ever since their arrival in North America, European colonists and their descendants have struggled to explain the epidemics that decimated native populations. C

Until recently, plagues were thought to belong in the ancient past. Now there are deep worries about global pandemics. This book presents views from anthropolog

This title examines the forms and conventions of colonial epidemiology in order to re-imagine New England's early literary history as a function of the narrativ

A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities. In Ep