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Disease and Social Diversity



Author: Stephen J. Kunitz
Edition: 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0195108698



Disease and Social Diversity: The European Impact on the Health of Non-Europeans


This book discusses the various social, political, and cultural forces that shape the distribution of diseases in populations. Medical books Disease and Social Diversity. It is based on a series of comparative studies of the historical and contemporary disease patterns of the indigenous peoples of America north of Mexico, Polynesia, and Australia. The purpose of the comparisons is to control in a quasi-experimental way certain crucial variables in order to examine the impact on health of other variables. The comparisons are made at increasingly more refined levels of analysis. Thus, once disease ecology has been held roughly constant, one can see more clearly the ways in which colonial policy and political institutions have shaped the affairs of indigenous peoples Medical books Disease and Social Diversity The European Impact on ..., 9780195108699. Disease and Social Diversity The European Impact on the Health of Non-Europeans, ISBN-13: 9780195108699, ISBN-10: 0195108698

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Disease and Social Diversity The European Impact on the Health of Non-Europeans, ISBN-13: 9780195108699, ISBN-10: 0195108698

Categories: Indians of North America->Health, Epidemiology, Disease Outbreaks. Contributors: Stephen J. Kunitz - Author. Format: Paperback

Categories: Indians of North America->Health, Epidemiology, Disease Outbreaks. Contributors: Stephen J. Kunitz - Author. Format: Paperback

Categories: Indians of North America->Health, Epidemiology, Disease Outbreaks. Contributors: Stephen J. Kunitz - Author. Format: Paperback



Medical Book Disease and Social Diversity



It is based on a series of comparative studies of the historical and contemporary disease patterns of the indigenous peoples of America north of Mexico, Polynesia, and Australia. The purpose of the comparisons is to control in a quasi-experimental way certain crucial variables in order to examine the impact on health of other variables. The comparisons are made at increasingly more refined levels of analysis. Thus, once disease ecology has been held roughly constant, one can see more clearly the ways in which colonial policy and political institutions have shaped the affairs of indigenous peoples. And once policy has been held constant, one can see more clearly how culture can make a difference. And once culture has been held constant, one can see how gender and status make a difference.

Kunitz argues that very few broad generalizations adequately explain the distribution of diseases in populations and that to truly comprehend such patterns one must understand the local social context as well the biological characteristics of diseases. The book is thus an argument for the importance of local knowledge as a complement to the universalizing sort of knowledge that we associate with science.

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