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Emerging Infections: Three Epidemiological Transitions from Prehistory to the Present de Ron Barrett

Emerging Infections: Three Epidemiological Transitions from Prehistory to the Present

Autor Ron Barrett, Molly Zuckerman, Matthew Ryan Dudgeon, George J. Armelagos
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mar 2024

Destinată nivelului de licență avansată, masterat și cercetării doctorale, a doua ediție a lucrării Emerging Infections propune o sinteză interdisciplinară necesară pentru înțelegerea dinamicii bolilor infecțioase. Notăm cu interes modul în care autorii refuză predicțiile optimiste ale secolului trecut privind eradicarea infecțiilor, argumentând că ne aflăm, de fapt, într-o eră post-antimicrobiană, definită de patogeni rezistenți și virusuri emergente. Structura volumului urmărește cronologic trei mari tranziții epidemiologice, demonstrând că, deși virusuri precum SARS-CoV-2 sunt noi, mecanismele care le facilitează apariția — organizarea socială, așezările umane și modurile de subzistență — au rămas constante în ultimii zece mii de ani.

Suntem de părere că forța acestui volum rezidă în perspectiva sa bioculturală, care plasează pandemia de COVID-19 într-un cadru explicativ de lungă durată („deep time”). Față de ediția precedentă, textul actualizează datele despre epidemiile recente de Ebola și Zika, oferind o bază teoretică solidă pentru specialiștii din antropologia medicală și sănătate publică. Acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum Endemics, Epidemics, and Pandemics in World History, însă Emerging Infections se distinge printr-o abordare mai focalizată pe mecanismele evolutive și pe interacțiunea biologică dintre gazdă și patogen, spre deosebire de tratarea mai degrabă istoric-tematică a lui Benjamin Reilly. De asemenea, lucrarea completează viziunea din Anthropology of Infectious Disease, oferind o structură mai riguroasă a tranzițiilor istorice specifice.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780192843142
ISBN-10: 0192843141
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 190 x 246 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:2 Revised edition
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru studenții și profesioniștii care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile istorice și sociale ale pandemiilor moderne. Cititorul câștigă un cadru analitic biocultural care explică de ce progresele medicale nu au oprit apariția noilor boli. Este o resursă academică de referință care transformă datele clinice într-o narațiune coerentă despre supraviețuirea speciei umane în fața patogenilor.

Despre autor

Ron Barrett este un cercetător și autor a cărui activitate academică în antropologie medicală se concentrează pe evoluția bolilor infecțioase. Deși numele său este adesea asociat în mediile non-academice cu ilustrațiile pentru cărți clasice de literatură infantilă precum Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, în contextul de față, Barrett își demonstrează expertiza academică riguroasă. Colaborarea sa cu specialiști precum George J. Armelagos, un pionier în studiul paleopatologiei, a fundamentat teoria celor trei tranziții epidemiologice, transformând acest volum într-un text de referință în bibliografia de specialitate a antropologiei biologice contemporane.

Descriere

Serving as both an accessible textbook and an original synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship, Emerging Infections traces the social and environmental determinants of human infectious diseases from the Paleolithic to the present day. Contrary to earlier predictions of a post-infectious era, humanity now faces a post-antimicrobial era with the emergence of drug-resistant pathogens and the entry of new and deadly viruses such as Ebola and COVID-19 in the human population. Yet despite the novelty of these infections, their evolution is primarily driven by the same human activities of subsistence, settlement, and social organization that have been recurring over the last ten thousand years. Approaching these activities from a biocultural perspective, this book examines the prehistory and history of human infectious diseases. Much has happened in the decade since the first edition, with significant developments in both disease research and in the evolution of the diseases themselves. As such, this new edition has been expanded to include recent epidemics of Ebola, Zika, MERS, and of course, COVID-19. Indeed, the book's biocultural approach is especially relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic, examining it from a deep time perspective and placing it within a much-needed explanatory framework. Emerging Infections is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in anthropology, the medical social sciences, public health, and the history of medicine. The book will also appeal to a more general readership with an interest in public health and infectious diseases.

Recenzii

Review from previous edition 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.
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
This book makes a compelling case for a renewed analysis of the long-term history of epidemics. It is the result of a life-long reflection on the development of both humankind and pathogens, as well as their interaction and equilibrium, or lack thereof. It is a thought-provoking theoretical investigation that will prove a potent heuristic tool for years to come.

Notă biografică

Ron Barrett is an Assistant 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.Molly Zuckerman is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures (AMEC) at Mississippi State University. Her research interests include Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Paleoepidemiology, and Biocultural Anthropology. Within these domains, she is broadly interested in the biosocial determinants of health inequalities and disease experiences within past populations. She is a Senior Editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology, published by Oxford University Press.Matt Dudgeon is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Emory School of Medicine and Associated Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University. His research has focused on the intersection of health and culture. He currently participates in research on determinants of antiretroviral failure in South Africa, a cross-national comparison of determinants of vaccine acceptance, internal medicine resident simulation training, and hospital-based ethnography of healthcare provider experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.The late George J. Armelagos was Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. His research interests 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).