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Antipoda. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
Print version ISSN 1900-5407
Abstract
SUAREZ, Roberto; BELTRAN, Elsa María and SANCHEZ, Tatiana. EL SENTIDO DEL RIESGO DESDE LA ANTROPOLOGÍA MÉDICA: CONSONANCIAS Y DISONANCIAS CON LA SALUD PÚBLICA EN DOS ENFERMEDADES TRANSMISIBLES. Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol. [online]. 2006, n.3, pp.123-154. ISSN 1900-5407.
Risk as category of analysis can not be reduced as a numeric probability, as is usually understood in public health. risk is a topic in modern societies that has been constructed as a pivotal issue to allow its technification and management while has acquired specific social meanings within people's social practices. This article seeks to understand the origin and construction the risk as a key concept in epidemiological studies and propose an analysis of two transmissible diseases: Rocky mountain spotted fever and hiv-aids. Both diseases show the complexity to understand the risk due to the visibility of AIDS and invisibility of the rocky Mountain Spotted fever.
Keywords : Risk; Epidemiology; Public Health; Medical Anthropology; Daily Practices.