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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2151635
AutoresMerrill Singer, 亮 細貝 (autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume28
Fascículo3
Páginas199-206
Data de publicação2009-08-10
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740903070451
PMID20182961
OpenAlexW20182961
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências 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