The Anthropology of Epidemics - Paperbackby Ann H. Kelly (Editor), Frdric Keck (Editor), Christos Lynteris (Editor) Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a transformational impact on social life whilst at the same time functioning as catalysts of shifts and ruptures as regards