TY - JOUR
T1 - Genitourinary Systems Entangled with Shifting Environments in a Salvadoran Subsistence Farming Community
AU - Anastario, Mike
AU - Arias Rodas, Miguel Geovanny
AU - Escobar Arteaga, Milton Alexander
AU - Villanueva, Christian
AU - Chacón Serrano, Fernando
AU - Ferdowsian, Hope
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by the American Anthropological Association
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - Diseases of the genitourinary system are the leading cause of hospital deaths in El Salvador, and chronic kidney disease of unknown origin has been gaining attention as a public health problem among farmers in particular. Epidemiological studies point, in part, to environmental risk factors, which have shifted over time with the deployment of modern agricultural science and ongoing climate change. We examined how diseases of the genitourinary system were situated at several margins of an epidemic in one rural Salvadoran municipality where these environmental and epidemiological changes are occurring, albeit relatively slow. By using this approach to study diseases of the genitourinary system, we illustrate one way in which shifting human/environment entanglements can be experimentally “known” in the context of human diseases associated with them. Our approach offers a unique perspective in thinking with ethnographic data to compliment ongoing epidemiological investigations of kidney disease in El Salvador.
AB - Diseases of the genitourinary system are the leading cause of hospital deaths in El Salvador, and chronic kidney disease of unknown origin has been gaining attention as a public health problem among farmers in particular. Epidemiological studies point, in part, to environmental risk factors, which have shifted over time with the deployment of modern agricultural science and ongoing climate change. We examined how diseases of the genitourinary system were situated at several margins of an epidemic in one rural Salvadoran municipality where these environmental and epidemiological changes are occurring, albeit relatively slow. By using this approach to study diseases of the genitourinary system, we illustrate one way in which shifting human/environment entanglements can be experimentally “known” in the context of human diseases associated with them. Our approach offers a unique perspective in thinking with ethnographic data to compliment ongoing epidemiological investigations of kidney disease in El Salvador.
KW - agrichemicals
KW - El Salvador
KW - entanglements
KW - genitourinary system
KW - modern agricultural science
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U2 - 10.1111/maq.12616
DO - 10.1111/maq.12616
M3 - Article
C2 - 33035383
AN - SCOPUS:85092165828
SN - 0745-5194
VL - 35
SP - 246
EP - 265
JO - Medical Anthropology Quarterly
JF - Medical Anthropology Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -