Affiliation:
1. Friends Social Research Center and Ethknoworks, Takoma Park, Maryland; Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland; International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta, Canada,
Abstract
This article is based on an invited keynote lecture to the Qualitative Health Research meetings in Banff, Alberta, in April 2002 and so is written in an informal style. The author begins with problems in traditional epidemiology, with its focus on the case record and the epidemiological triad of host, agent, and environment. The idea of a person-in-context “movie” is offered as an alternative kind of case record, and broader issues of identity and context are added to enrich the explanations of those records. In the original presentation, an agent-based model in the style of complexity theory was demonstrated. That model is beyond the scope of this article and is now under review by a complexity journal; a draft manuscript is available on request.
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Reference4 articles.
1. Agar, M. H. (1996). Recasting the “ethno” in “ethnoepidemiology.” Medical Anthropology, 16, 391-403.
2. How to Ask for a Study in Qualitatisch
3. Agar, M. H. & Kozel, N. (Eds.). (1999). Ethnography and substance use: Talking numbers [Special issue]. Substance Abuse & Misuse, 34(14).
4. A heroin epidemic at the intersection of histories: The 1960s epidemic among African Americans in Baltimore
Cited by
34 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献