The relevance of anthropology for tropical public health: a historical perspective.
Despite the fact that tropical diseases have long been linked to human behaviour and local cultures, the written record of anthropologists involved in the study of tropical disease is relatively recent. In this article, the authors review how anthropologists have shifted their focus from the ecological modeling of disease transmission to the more recent cultural-epidemiological and historical approaches. The list of authors reviewed does not pretend to be exhaustive but rather is intended to reveal the co-existence of multiple paradigms in explaining the emergence of tropical disease within cultures.
Heggenhougen
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Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02115, USA.
Pedersen
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D000884:Anthropology, Cultural / Q000266:history*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004463:Ecology; D004813:Epidemiology / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history; D014330:Tropical Medicine / Q000266:history*