Asian flus in ethnographic and political context: A biosocial approach.
This collection highlights some of the social, cultural, political and economic factors that must be considered in developing a biosocial approach to pandemic influenza control and prevention. To date, most discussions of the current spread of avian influenza and a predicted human influenza pandemic have lacked rigorous analysis of the local contexts in which flus arise and in which the effects of a pandemic would most strongly be felt. Such local engagement is necessary to the development of an effective and ethical programme of epidemic control. The papers in this special issue take a step towards filling this gap by exploring the local moral worlds associated with avian influenza in China, Indonesia and Thailand.
a Department of Anthropology , Harvard University , Cambridge , MA , USA.|b Department of Social Medicine , Harvard Medical School , Boston , MA , USA.
Arthur M
AM
Kleinman
c Harvard School of Public Health , Boston , MA , USA.
Barry R
BR
Bloom
d John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University , Cambridge , MA , USA.|e Harvard University Asia Center , Cambridge , MA , USA.
Anthony
A
Saich
a Department of Anthropology , Harvard University , Cambridge , MA , USA.
Katherine A
KA
Mason
a Department of Anthropology , Harvard University , Cambridge , MA , USA.
Felicity
F
Aulino
Asian flus; avian influenza; biosocial; ethics; pandemic influenza