Worms, slugs and humans: the medical and popular construction of an emerging infectious disease
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Resumo: | The identification of the worm Angiostrongylus costaricensis parasitizing land snails and humans in Southern Brazil suggests under-diagnosis and under-notification of patients with abdominal angiostrongyliasis. This article analyzes how the concept of abdominal angiostrongyliasis was constructed in different ways in Costa Rica and Brazil and how these changes affected the understanding of its clinical and epidemiological diagnosis. The research shows that abdominal angiostrongyliasis is, de facto, a sociocultural construct, although the parasites and vectors are real. The analisys also shows the importance of an interdisciplinary approach for understanding disease. |
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Worms, slugs and humans: the medical and popular construction of an emerging infectious disease |
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Worms, slugs and humans: the medical and popular construction of an emerging infectious disease |
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Worms, slugs and humans: the medical and popular construction of an emerging infectious disease Grisotti,Márcia medical knowledge public understanding of disease emerging infectious disease abdominal angiostrongyliasis normal and pathological |
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Worms, slugs and humans: the medical and popular construction of an emerging infectious disease |
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Worms, slugs and humans: the medical and popular construction of an emerging infectious disease |
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Worms, slugs and humans: the medical and popular construction of an emerging infectious disease |
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Worms, slugs and humans: the medical and popular construction of an emerging infectious disease |
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Worms, slugs and humans: the medical and popular construction of an emerging infectious disease |
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Grisotti,Márcia |
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Grisotti,Márcia Avila-Pires,Fernando Dias de |
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Avila-Pires,Fernando Dias de |
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Grisotti,Márcia Avila-Pires,Fernando Dias de |
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medical knowledge public understanding of disease emerging infectious disease abdominal angiostrongyliasis normal and pathological |
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medical knowledge public understanding of disease emerging infectious disease abdominal angiostrongyliasis normal and pathological |
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The identification of the worm Angiostrongylus costaricensis parasitizing land snails and humans in Southern Brazil suggests under-diagnosis and under-notification of patients with abdominal angiostrongyliasis. This article analyzes how the concept of abdominal angiostrongyliasis was constructed in different ways in Costa Rica and Brazil and how these changes affected the understanding of its clinical and epidemiological diagnosis. The research shows that abdominal angiostrongyliasis is, de facto, a sociocultural construct, although the parasites and vectors are real. The analisys also shows the importance of an interdisciplinary approach for understanding disease. |
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2011 |
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