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

by Stephen J. Kunitz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195108698
• ISBN13: 9780195108699
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"