Infectious disease pandemics are associated with social consequences and stigma that are
noticeably similar in various health conditions, health systems, and cultures. Stigma impacts …

Biological anthropologists are ideally suited for the study of pandemics given their strengths
in human biology, health, culture, and behavior, yet pandemics have historically not been a …

Contagious Divides charts the dynamic transformation of representations of Chinese
immigrants from medical menace in the nineteenth century to model citizen in the mid …

'Lose weight!''Avoid fat!''Stop smoking!''Reduce alcohol intake!''Get fit!''Practise safe sex!''Play
safe!'In contemporary Western societies the health status and vulnerability of the body are …

Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following
World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of LA from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a …

Conspiracy theories have proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide an
explanation for uncontrollable circumstances. Most conspiratorial explanations often ascribe …

This paper examines the production of risk and blame discourses during the 2003 SARS
epidemic and responses to those messages in New York City's Chinatown, a community …

The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity
through a close look at an'illegal'squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial …

This book explores the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian
eras, a pivotal time in its emergence as a modern metropolis. Drawing together strands that …

Ongoing interest in therapeutic landscapes has contributed noticeably to the development of
a “post-medical geography of health”(Kearns, RA, Professional Geographer 45 (1993) 139) …