Pathogens Gone Wild? Medical Anthropology and the "Swine Flu" Pandemic

Bibliographic Data

ID2151635
AuthorsMerrill Singer, 亮 細貝 (corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume28
Issue3
Pages199-206
Publication date2009-08-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740903070451
PMID20182961
OpenAlexW20182961
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited6

Beginning in April 2009, global attention began focusing on the emergence in Mexico of a potentially highly lethal new influenza strain of porcine origin that has successfully jumped species barriers and is now being transmitted around the world. Reported on extensively by the mass media, commented on by public health and government officials across the globe, and focused on with nervous attention by the general public, the so-called swine flu pandemic raises important questions, addressed here, concerning the capacity of medical anthropology to respond usefully to such disease outbreaks and their health and social consequences

Philosophy · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research · Zoonotic diseases and public health