Screen LibraryA companion to medical anthropology
"In a global environment of enormous health challenges, medical anthropologists offer important understandings of health systems and healing practices around the world. These leading international scholars assess our persisting problems of malnutrition, chronic and infectious diseases, and the...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to anthropology
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444395303 |
| Summary: |
"In a global environment of enormous health challenges, medical anthropologists offer important understandings of health systems and healing practices around the world. These leading international scholars assess our persisting problems of malnutrition, chronic and infectious diseases, and the influence of escalating levels of inequality, poverty, war, and genocide. A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the key issues and controversies in medical anthropology today. Singer and Erickson present a thorough assessment of a specific area of medical anthropology, including expert overviews of major topics such as environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance abuse, infectious disease, and sexuality and reproductive health. The authors also provide a guide to future trends and the emerging issues that will shape the future of medical anthropology and global health for years to come"-- |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxxi, 541 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781444395303 (electronic bk.) 1444395300 (electronic bk.) 9781444350739 (electronic bk.) 1444350730 (electronic bk.) 9781444395280 (electronic bk.) 1444395289 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | GN296 |
| CLC: | R-05 |
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Theories, Applications, and Methods -- Medical Anthropology in Disciplinary Context: Definitional Struggles and Key Debates (or Answering the Cri Du Coeur) / Critical Biocultural Approaches in Medical Anthropology / Applied Medical Anthropology: Praxis, Pragmatics, Politics, and Promises / Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology / Medical Anthropology and Public Policy / Contexts and Conditions -- Culture and the Stress Process / Global Health / Syndemics in Global Health / The Ecology of Disease and Health / The Medical Anthropology of Water / Political Violence, War and Medical Anthropology / Health and Behavior -- Humans in a World of Microbes: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease / Sexuality, Medical Anthropology, and Public Health / Situating Birth in the Anthropology of Reproduction / Nutrition and Health / Anthropologies of Cancer and Risk, Uncertainty and Disruption / Generation RX: Anthropological Research on Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Lifestyle Regulation, Self-Medication and Recreational Drug Use / Anthropology and the Study of Illicit Drug Use / Healthwork: Care, Treatment, and Communication -- Ethnomedicine / Medical Pluralism: An Evolving and Contested Concept in Medical Anthropology / Biotechnologies of Care / Social Interaction and Technology: Cultural Competency and the Universality of Good Manners / Biocommunicability / Anthropology at the End of Life / The Road Ahead -- Operationalizing a Right to Health: Theorizing a National Health System as a "Commons" / As the Future Explodes into the Present: Emergent Issues and the Tomorrow of Medical Anthropology / |