A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological
modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities. In Epidemic Illusions …

An indispensable read for all those seeking to address the severe problems of local and
global human health and environmental crises The widespread growth of monopolies and …

The continued inordinate demise from communicable pathogens in the global South is not
the result of an intractable problem thwarting our best efforts to prevent and cure disease; we …

Public health in the United States and Western Europe has long been allied with national
security and international commerce. During the 1990s, American virologists and public …

When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings
together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical …

In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world's leading medical
anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science …

118 the unnatural history of disease, are clear in this selection. This type of criticism is not
common in biomedicine and public health—both of which tend to be thought of as apolitical …

Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related
behavior, and health care in light of social and health inequality as well as structural …

This article examines the global response to the Covid‐19 pandemic. It argues that we
urgently need to look beyond the virus if we want to understand the real seriousness of what …

For many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the
effects of an uncontrolled epidemic. This is in part due to a series of little-known regulations …