Disease and social diversity: the European impact on the health of non-Europeans

This exploratory work examines the impact of European contact on the health of indigenous peoples of North America, Polynesia and Australia. The significant findings reveal that effects were widely varied, depending on the specific policies of the Europeans and on the culture and social organization...

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1. Verfasser: Kunitz, Stephen J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 1994
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Zusammenfassung:This exploratory work examines the impact of European contact on the health of indigenous peoples of North America, Polynesia and Australia. The significant findings reveal that effects were widely varied, depending on the specific policies of the Europeans and on the culture and social organization of the indigenous peoples themselves
In this unique volume, Kunitz argues that in order to understand diseases in populations, it is first necessary to recognize the social, political, and cultural context as well as the biology of the disease. He demonstrates how local, historical knowledge of time and place is crucial to comprehending the morbidity and mortality of each disease. Case studies are used to illustrate such points as the importance of macro-social institutional forces, such as federalism, as well as micro-social forces, such as gender status in particular societies
Public health specialists, epidemiologists, medical anthropologists, sociologists, and physicians are sure to gain insight from the theory and evidence presented in this well-researched work
Beschreibung:VIII, 209 S. graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:0195085302

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