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

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2151635
AutoresMerrill Singer, 亮 細貝 (autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen28
Número3
Páginas199-206
Fecha de publicación2009-08-10
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740903070451
PMID20182961
OpenAlexW20182961
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas6

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