Encylopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures Topics - Volume 1; Cultures - Volume 2

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Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and disease are managed in different cultures, the more we can recognize what is "culture bound" in our own medical belief and practice. The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology is unique because it is the first reference work to describe the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures and to provide an overview of important topics in medical anthropology. No other single reference work comes close to marching the depth and breadth of information on the varying cultural background of health and illness around the world. More than 100 experts - anthropologists and other social scientists - have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures from around the world. Cover Copyright Advisory Board Contributors Preface Contents Glossary Volume I: Topics General Concepts and Perspectives Theoretical and Applied Issues in Cross-Cultural Health Research Cognitive Medical Anthropology Critical Medical Anthropology Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives Forensic Anthropology IIlness Narratives Paleopathology and the Study of Ancient Remains Psychoanalysis and Anthropology Medical Systems Bioethics Biomedical Technologies Biomedicine Medical Pluralism Medicalization and the Naturalization of Social Control Phenomenology of Health and Illness Possession and Trance Shamanism Political, Economic, and Social Issues Disasters Health and Economic Development Homelessness Nutrition and Health Post-Colonial Development and Health Refugee Health Social Stratification and Health in the Western Context The Urban Poor Sexuality, Reproduction, and the Life Cycle Aging Birth Breast-Feeding Child Growth Dying and Death Female Genital Cutting Immunization Population Control Reproductive Health Health Conditions and Diseases Alcohol Use Child Abuse and Neglect Cholera and other Water-Borne Diseases Chronic Diseases of Aging Culture-Bound Syndromes Culture, Stress, and Cardiovascular Disease Diabetes Mellitus and Medical Anthropology Diarrhea Disability/Difference Drug Use Emerging Infectious Diseases Genetic Disease I: History and Mechanisms Genetic Disease II HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention Malaria and other Major Insect Vector Diseases Mental Disorders Mental Retardation Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS or Cot Death) Tobacco Use in Medical Anthropological Perspective Tuberculosis Research and Control Volume II: Cultures African Americans1 Amish Argentine Toba Badaga Bangladeshis Baliem Valley Dani British Burmese Cree Czechs Datoga Fore French Fulani Garhwali Garifuna Greeks The Hadza Haitians Han Hausa Hmong in Laos and the United States Iroquois Jamaican Maroons Japanese Jat Lijiang Naxi Malagasy Malays Maori Matsigenka Maya of Highland Mexico Mongolia The Nahua1 Navajo Nepal The Northwest Coast Ojibwa Oklahoma Choctaw Roma of the United States and Europe Samoa Saraguros Shipibo Sotho Sudanese Thai Tongans Trobriand Tuareg Wape Yanomamö Yoruba Subject Index Cultural and Alternative Names Index Back Cover