Intro -- Front cover -- Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Political Economic and Ecological Matters: Gaging the Impact of an Epidemic -- Chapter 1. Capitalism is making us sick: poverty, illness and the SARS crisis in Toronto -- Introduction -- SARS, ecology and capitalist poverty -- Making Ontario susceptible: impacts of neo-liberal restructuring -- Restricted responses -- SARS and work -- SARS and circuses: tourism and Toronto’s economic ailments -- Some surgery required -- Solidarity and health: an alternative globalization -- Beyond SARS: the hidden illnesses of class -- References -- Chapter 2. False perceptions and falciparum: A political ecology of malaria in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania -- Introduction -- Malaria in Ngorongo -- Political ecology: a framework for looking past the symptoms -- Maasai pastoralism and health in ecological perspective -- Managing the Maasai and defining the Ngorongoro Conservation Area -- Image, identity, and intervention in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area -- Tourism and conservation: harmonious interactionquest -- Conclusions: Looking forward after looking back -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3. Policy, polity, and the HIV crisis in emerging economies: India and Russia compared -- Introduction -- India -- Russia -- Conclusion - the two going forward -- Notes -- References -- Part II: The Significance and Process of Emergence -- Chapter 4. The concept of emerging infectious disease revisited -- Introduction -- How human infectious diseases emerge and spread -- Current definitions -- The case of angiostrongyliasis -- A localized outbreak of possibly emerging Chagas disease -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5. Sounding a public health alarm: producing West Nile virus as a newly emerging infectious disease epidemic -- Introduction -- The emergence of diseases and structures of response -- Foucauldian perspectives in power -- Discourse -- Powersolknowledge -- Power and discipline -- Technologies of power and techniques of power -- Methodology -- Findings -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 6. Emerging and concentrated HIVsolAIDS epidemics and windows of opportunity: prevention and policy pitfalls -- Introduction -- The Vietnamese context -- Morality, politics, and society -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 7. The social politics of pandemic influenzas: the question of (permeable) international, inter-species, and interpersonal boundaries -- Introduction -- Background: what makes a pandemic, and when is flu deadlyquest -- Vaccines, international borders, and interpersonal barriers -- Species boundaries and the role of industrialized meat farming -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part III: The Politics of Rhetoric and Categorization -- Chapter 8. The poetics of Americ.
an circumcision on the margins of medical necessity -- Introduction -- Historical development from Abraham to America -- A political topography of American circumcision -- Synergies and tensions: religion, medicine and sexual politics -- Policy considerations of circumcision -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9. Of rebels, conformists, and innovators: applying Merton’s typology to explore an effective home care policy for the emerging Alzheimer’s epidemic -- Introduction -- Establishing context: the evolving Alzheimer’s disease epidemic -- Establishing context: Medicare home health policy -- The study -- Merton’s typology of individual adaptation -- The conformist -- The innovator -- The rebel -- Looking to hospice for guidance -- Making psychosocial care a core element of home health care -- References -- Chapter 10. ’Promoted by Hong Tao, the Chlamydia hypothesis had become well established ...’: Understanding the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic - but which onequest -- Introduction -- China’s missed chance -- The discovery of the coronavirus -- Findings and notings -- Hong’s cognitive brackets -- ’By then ...’ -- Repetition and embellishment -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 11. The rhetoric of science and statistics in claims of an autism epidemic -- Introduction -- Claims and counterclaims -- The rhetoric of statistics - ‘‘autism is increasing rapidly and is not rare’’ -- Causality from trend statistics: something must be causing the increase -- Medical interventions in childhood -- Cause or coincidencequest -- Whose science do we trustquest -- Requisite social conditions -- Medicalization of childhood ASD -- Scientific agency and parent-experts -- Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part IV: The uses and misuses of an epidemic model for psychiatric and Behavioral issues -- Chapter 12. Bipolar disorder and the medicalization of mood: an epidemics of diagnosisquest -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The ’epidemics’ of bipolar disorder -- 3. Medicalization theory -- 4. The medicalization of unhappiness -- 5. The extension of the pathological sphere -- 6. Summary: the sickscape framework -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13. What epidemicquest The social construction of bipolar epidemics -- Introduction: an emerging epidemicquest -- Social constructions or biological illnessquest -- Culprits: subthresholds and spectrums -- Culprit: expanding mania -- Conclusion: what about the drug companiesquest -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 14. The depression epidemic: how shifting definitions and industry practices shape perceptions of depression prevalence in the United States -- Introduction -- Depression epidemiology -- Medicalizing sadness -- Medicalization in practice: the role of industry -- Conclusion: the depression epidemic and its impact on the experience and treatment of depression -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 15. Biomedicalizing men.
tal illness: The case of attention deficit disorder -- Introduction -- Conceptual framework -- The DSM history -- Consequences for the treatment of ADD -- Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 16. Contagious youth: deviance and the management of youth sociality -- Introduction -- Contemporary discourse of the epidemic -- Youth sociality and techniques of intervention -- Conclusion -- References -- Part V: Case study of a newly constructed epidemic: Three Perspectives on obesity -- Chapter 17. A social change model of the obesity epidemic -- Introduction -- Theoretical perspectives -- Overweight, obesity, and comorbidities -- The global obesity epidemic -- Obesity in the United States -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 18. Who says obesity is an epidemicquest How excess weight became an American health crisis -- Introduction -- Background -- Part I: What is an epidemicquest -- Part II: Medical journals and diet books on obesity, 1960s-2000s -- Discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 19. ‘‘Who are you calling ’fat’quest’’: the social construction of the obesity epidemic -- Introduction -- Constructing and deconstructing the obesity epidemic -- The ‘‘risk’’ of being fat -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- .
