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Epidemiologists and social scientists are collaborating today on research topics ranging from the epidemiology of violence to the behavioral patterns associated with coronary heart disease, lung cancer, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). They are uncovering significant etiological links between the social environment and health status, employing social categories such as bereavement (Jacobs and Ostfeld 1977), marital status (Gove 1973), social class (Antonovsky 1967; Syme and Berkman 1976), and social dislocation (Neser et al. 1971). Moreover, social scientists in general, and medical anthropologists in particular, are making independent contributions to epidemiological knowledge through their research on lactose intolerance (McCracken 1971), the relationship between malaria and sickle cell anemia (Wiesenfeld 1967), and the etiology of the slow virus kuru (Farquhar and Gajdusek 1981; Fischer and Fischer 1961; Gajdusek 1977; Lindenbaum 1982).
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Trostle, J. (1986). Early Work in Anthropology and Epidemiology: From Social Medicine to the Germ Theory, 1840 to 1920. In: Janes, C.R., Stall, R., Gifford, S.M. (eds) Anthropology and Epidemiology. Culture, Illness, and Healing, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3723-9_2
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