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

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Edition: 1
Release: 1996-02-15
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0195108698
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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This book discusses the various social, political, and cultural forces that shape the distribution of diseases in populations. 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.

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