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A Companion to Medical Anthropology

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2011
ISBN
9781405190022, 9781444395303
DOI
10.1002/9781444395303
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3148087 bytes)
Pages
554\554
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00

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A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today. Examines the key issues and current debates in medical anthropology Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s Written by leading international scholars in medical anthropology Covers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance abuse, infectious disease, and sexuality and reproductive health, and other topics Content: Chapter 1 Medical Anthropology in Disciplinary Context: Definitional Struggles and Key Debates (or Answering the Cri Du Coeur) (pages 7–28): Elisa J. SoboChapter 2 Critical Biocultural Approaches in Medical Anthropology (pages 29–48): Tom Leatherman and Alan H. GoodmanChapter 3 Applied Medical Anthropology: Praxis, Pragmatics, Politics, and Promises (pages 49–68): Robert T. TrotterChapter 4 Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology (pages 69–91): Clarence C. GravleeChapter 5 Medical Anthropology and Public Policy (pages 93–116): Merrill EisenbergChapter 6 Culture and the Stress Process (pages 117–134): William W. DresslerChapter 7 Global Health (pages 135–157): Craig R. Janes and Kitty K. CorbettChapter 8 Syndemics in Global Health (pages 159–179): Merrill Singer, D. Ann Herring, Judith Littleton and Melanie RockChapter 9 The Ecology of Disease and Health (pages 181–195): Patricia K. TownsendChapter 10 The Medical Anthropology of Water (pages 197–218): Linda M. Whiteford and Cecilia Vindrola PadrosChapter 11 Political Violence, War and Medical Anthropology (pages 219–249): Barbara Rylko?Bauer and Dr Merrill SingerChapter 12 Humans in a World of Microbes: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease (pages 251–270): Peter J. Brown, George J. Armelagos and Kenneth C. MaesChapter 13 Sexuality, Medical Anthropology, and Public Health (pages 271–287): Pamela I. EricksonChapter 14 Situating Birth in the Anthropology of Reproduction (pages 289–303): Carolyn Sargent and Lauren GulbasChapter 15 Nutrition and Health (pages 305–321): David A. Himmelgreen, Nancy Romero Daza and Charlotte A. NobleChapter 16 Anthropologies of Cancer and Risk, Uncertainty and Disruption (pages 323–338): Lenore MandersonChapter 17 Generation RX: Anthropological Research on Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Lifestyle Regulation, Self?Medication and Recreational Drug Use (pages 339–355): Gilbert Quintero and Mark NichterChapter 18 Anthropology and the Study of Illicit Drug Use (pages 357–377): J. Bryan PageChapter 19 Ethnomedicine (pages 379–403): Marsha B. QuinlanChapter 20 Medical Pluralism: An Evolving and Contested Concept in Medical Anthropology (pages 405–423): Hans A. BaerChapter 21 Biotechnologies of Care (pages 425–441): Julie Park and Ruth FitzgeraldChapter 22 Social Interaction and Technology: Cultural Competency and the Universality of Good Manners (pages 443–458): Kathryn Coe, Gail Barker and Craig PalmerChapter 23 Biocommunicability (pages 459–476): Charles L. BriggsChapter 24 Anthropology at the End of Life (pages 477–490): Ron BarrettChapter 25 Operationalizing a Right to Health: Theorizing a National Health System as a “Commons” (pages 491–514): Sandy Smith?Nonini and Beverly BellChapter 26 As the Future Explodes into the Present: Emergent Issues and the Tomorrow of Medical Anthropology (pages 515–532): Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson

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