Adaptive chronic infection, structured stress, and medical magic bullets: do reductionist cures select for holistic diseases?

Wallace, Rodrick; Wallace, Robert G.

doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2004.04.004

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“…Questions of life stressors were drawn from research on an array of health outcomes and stress (Campos, Schetter, Walsh, & Schenker, 2007;Dressler, 1996;Farley, Galves, Dickinson, & Perez, 2005;Wallace & Wallace, 2004). Not all questions in the survey are examined here.…”

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Undocumented immigrants and their use of medical services in Orange County, California

Chávez

2012

Social Science & Medicine

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a b s t r a c tDoes an undocumented immigration status predict the use of medical services? To explore this question, this paper examines medical care utilization of undocumented Latino immigrants compared to Latino legal immigrants and citizens, and non-Latino whites in Orange County, California. Data were collected through a random sample telephone survey of 805 Latinos and 396 non-Hispanic whites between January 4 and January 30, 2006. Findings show that undocumented immigrants had relatively low incomes and were less likely to have medical insurance; experience a number of stresses in their lives; and underutilize medical services when compared to legal immigrants and citizens. Predictors of use of medical services are found to include undocumented immigration status, medical insurance, education, and gender. Undocumented Latinos were found to use medical services less than legal immigrants and citizens, and to rely more on clinic-based care when they do seek medical services.

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Undocumented immigrants and their use of medical services in Orange County, California

Chávez

2012

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Questions of life stressors were drawn from research on an array of health outcomes and stress (Campos et al 2007;Dressler 1996;Farley et al 2005;Wallace and Wallace 2004). Not all questions in the survey are examined here.…”

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“Awakening to a Nightmare”

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Chávez²

2012

Current Anthropology

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“…Indeed, ignoring the latter condition increases the likelihood the vaccine will fail at any number of levels, from the molecular to the socioeconomic. 9,15,79 As Ebola and other pathogens evolve out from underneath our passing technicist responses, the agroeconomic matrix, a global specter, looms as the critical cause the health sciences are leaving largely unaddressed. That needn't be the case.…”

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“…Many intractable pathogens, among them HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis, act decidedly unlike smallpox and other diseases that respond to the reductionist model of intervention. 15 In a world in which viruses and bacteria evolve in response to humanity's multifaceted infrastructure-agriculture, transportation, pharmaceuticals, public health, science, politics-our epistemological and epidemiological intractabilities may be in fundamental ways one and the same.…”

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Did Neoliberalizing West African Forests Produce a New Niche for Ebola?

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A recent study introduced a vaccine that controls Ebola Makona, the Zaire ebolavirus variant that has infected 28,000 people in West Africa. We propose that even such successful advances are insufficient for many emergent diseases. We review work hypothesizing that Makona, phenotypically similar to much smaller outbreaks, emerged out of shifts in land use brought about by neoliberal economics. The epidemiological consequences demand a new science that explicitly addresses the foundational processes underlying multispecies health, including the deep-time histories, cultural infrastructure, and global economic geographies driving disease emergence. The approach, for instance, reverses the standard public health practice of segregating emergency responses and the structural context from which outbreaks originate. In Ebola's case, regional neoliberalism may affix the stochastic "friction" of ecological relationships imposed by the forest across populations, which, when above a threshold, keeps the virus from lining up transmission above replacement. Export-led logging, mining, and intensive agriculture may depress such functional noise, permitting novel spillovers larger forces of infection. Mature outbreaks, meanwhile, can continue to circulate even in the face of efficient vaccines. More research on these integral explanations is required, but the narrow albeit welcome success of the vaccine may be used to limit support of such a program.

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Adaptive chronic infection, structured stress, and medical magic bullets: do reductionist cures select for holistic diseases?

Cited by 11 publications

References 51 publications

Undocumented immigrants and their use of medical services in Orange County, California

Undocumented immigrants and their use of medical services in Orange County, California

“Awakening to a Nightmare”

Did Neoliberalizing West African Forests Produce a New Niche for Ebola?

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