Understanding Emerging Epidemics

Focuses on the contributions that social scientists can make to understanding emerging epidemics, their impact, the threats they pose, and their social and political contexts. This book examines emerging epidemics and offers a theoretical analysis of the use of epidemics and epidemiology as frameworks for understanding these phenomena.

Summary

Focuses on the contributions that social scientists can make to understanding emerging epidemics, their impact, the threats they pose, and their social and political contexts. This book examines emerging epidemics and offers a theoretical analysis of the use of epidemics and epidemiology as frameworks for understanding these phenomena.

Product details

• Authors: Giandomenica Becchio
• Assisted by: Ananya Mukherjea (Editor)
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.2010
• EAN: 9781848550803
• ISBN: 978-1-84855-080-3
• No. of pages: 386
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 743 g
• Series: Advances in Medical Sociology; Advances in Medical Sociology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories