Epidemiology, social history, and the beginnings of medical anthropology in the highlands of New Guinea
Shirley Lindenbaum’s study in the early 1960s of the origins and transmission of kuru among the Fore people of the eastern highlands of New Guinea is one of the earliest examples of an explicitly medical anthropology. Lindenbaum later described her investigations as assembling ‘an epidemiology of so...
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| description | Shirley Lindenbaum’s study in the early 1960s of the origins and transmission of kuru among the Fore people of the eastern highlands of New Guinea is one of the earliest examples of an explicitly medical anthropology. Lindenbaum later described her investigations as assembling ‘an epidemiology of social relations’. How might the emergence of medical anthropology, then, be related to the concurrent development of the social history of medicine and global epidemic intelligence? Are these alternative genealogies for medical anthropology? |
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| spelling | doaj.art-66b923e904694e20aaad320e6b2114282022-12-21T21:56:33ZengUniversity of Edinburgh LibraryMedicine Anthropology Theory2405-691X2018-04-015110.17157/mat.5.1.5914829Epidemiology, social history, and the beginnings of medical anthropology in the highlands of New GuineaWarwick AndersonShirley Lindenbaum’s study in the early 1960s of the origins and transmission of kuru among the Fore people of the eastern highlands of New Guinea is one of the earliest examples of an explicitly medical anthropology. Lindenbaum later described her investigations as assembling ‘an epidemiology of social relations’. How might the emergence of medical anthropology, then, be related to the concurrent development of the social history of medicine and global epidemic intelligence? Are these alternative genealogies for medical anthropology?http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/4829medical anthropologykurudiseaseepidemiologysocial historylindenbaum |
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| title | Epidemiology, social history, and the beginnings of medical anthropology in the highlands of New Guinea |
| title_full | Epidemiology, social history, and the beginnings of medical anthropology in the highlands of New Guinea |
| title_fullStr | Epidemiology, social history, and the beginnings of medical anthropology in the highlands of New Guinea |
| title_full_unstemmed | Epidemiology, social history, and the beginnings of medical anthropology in the highlands of New Guinea |
| title_short | Epidemiology, social history, and the beginnings of medical anthropology in the highlands of New Guinea |
| title_sort | epidemiology social history and the beginnings of medical anthropology in the highlands of new guinea |
| topic | medical anthropology kuru disease epidemiology social history lindenbaum |
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