Introducing medical anthropology : a discipline in action / Merrill Singer, Hans A. Baer, Debbi Long, Alex Pavlotski
- Author
- Singer, Merrill
- Published
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]
- Edition
- Third edition.
- Physical Description
- xii, 308 pages ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Baer, Hans A., 1944-, Long, Debbi, and Pavlotski, Alex
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction to the Anthropology of Health -- Introduction and Overview -- Encountering Health Anthropology -- Three Case Studies in Applied Health Anthropology -- Coping with Cystic Fibrosis -- The Bone Crusher -- Pesticide Poisoning -- Practical and Theoretical Contributions of Health Anthropology -- Clarifying the Culture of Health and Illness -- Health Inequality -- Defining Health Anthropology -- Culture and Biology -- History of Health Anthropology -- The Straits Expedition -- W. H. R. Rivers and Beyond -- Rudolf Virchow -- Erwin Ackerknecht and William Caudill -- The Postwar Period -- Health Anthropology and National Development -- The Discipline Is Born -- The Relationship of Health Anthropology to Anthropology and to Other Health-Related Disciplines -- Health Research and the Subfields of Anthropology -- Health Anthropology and Epidemiology -- Illness and Help-Seeking Behavior -- Health Anthropology and Public Health -- Health Anthropology and Bioethics -- Health Anthropology Theories -- Medical Ecology -- Meaning-Centered Health Anthropology -- Critical Health Anthropology -- 2.What Health Anthropologists Do -- Introduction and Overview -- Three Settings, Three Case Studies, Three Health Anthropologists -- Life and Death in Tanala -- Studying Surgeons -- Folk Illness in Haiti -- A Case Study -- Having Impact -- What Health Anthropologists Study -- A Diverse Discipline -- Studying the Life Course -- Conducting Research: A Peculiarly Anthropological Approach -- Holistic, Field-Based Understanding -- Ethnography -- Complex Sociocultural Tapestries -- Research Methods -- Multimethod Research -- Examining Lives -- Focus Group Interviews -- Considering Consensus -- Doing Diaries -- Quantitative Methods -- Broader Collaboration -- Health Anthropology in Use -- Mobilizing Research Findings -- The Health Anthropology Crystal Ball -- 3.Understanding Health, Illness, and Disease -- Introduction and Overview -- Conceptions of Health and Illness -- Defining Terms -- Differentiating Disease and Illness -- Reconceptualizing Disease and Illness -- Understanding Cure -- Folk Understandings -- Understandings of Disease Causation -- Humanizing Biomedicine -- Sufferer Experience -- Experience and Cultural Symbols -- Cultural Emotions -- Social Suffering -- Beyond Social Suffering -- Disability and Chronic Illness -- The Patient in the Body -- The Cultural Construction of Disability -- Stigmatization -- Human Rights and Health -- Illness Narratives -- The Social Uses of Narration -- Analyzing Narrative -- Embodied Health Experience -- Why Bodies? -- Body Theory -- Bodies in the Age of Immunology -- Cyborg Bodies -- Mindful Bodies -- Engendered Bodies -- Understanding Medicalization -- Healer versus Sufferer Conception of Disease -- The Two Sides of Compliance -- Insider and Outsider Assessments of Health Status -- One Word, Two Meanings -- Diseased but Not 111 -- Mismessaging -- Analyzing Health Discourse -- 4.Health Disparity, Health Inequality -- Introduction and Overview -- What Is Health Disparity? -- Health Disparity in the United States -- Gasping for Breath -- Causes of Health Disparity: Lifestyle versus Social Inequality -- Living Right -- Structural Explanation -- Biology of Poverty -- Insuring Disease -- Culturally Competent Care -- Health and Social Disparities Cross-Culturally -- Child and Maternal Health Disparities -- Addressing Health Disparities -- Addressing Health Disparities in the Community -- Upstream Analyses of Health Disparities -- Gender and Global Health -- Focusing on Disparity in Diseases -- Multidisciplinary Approaches -- Studying Local Mediation of Global Health -- Pushing Back on Health Disparities -- "Race" and Health Disparity -- Race and Racism -- 5.Health and the Environment: Toward a Healthier World -- Introduction and Overview -- Medical Ecology and Critical Health Anthropology on the Environment -- Health and the Environment in the Past -- Health and the Environment Today -- Depletion of Natural Resources and Environmental Degradation -- Capitalism and Climate Change -- Infectious Diseases in a Globalizing World -- The Impact of Climate Change on Health -- Other Environmental Impacts on Health -- Water and Globalization -- The Political Ecology of Cancer -- Cancer in the Community -- Cancer and Industry -- China's Cancer Villages -- Anthropological Examinations of Cancer Treatment -- Nuclear Reactors and Health -- Unconventional Natural Gas Extraction and Health -- The Impact of Private Motor Vehicles on Health -- The Political Ecology of AIDS: Assessing a Contemporary Syndemic -- 6.Ethnomedicine: The Worlds of Treatment and Healing -- Introduction and Overview -- Approaching Ethnomedicine -- Indigenous and Folk Medicine Systems -- Ways of Healing -- Typologies of Healing Systems -- An Evolutionary Model of Disease Theories and Healing Systems -- Health, Illness, and Medicine in Family-Level Foraging Societies -- Health, Illness, and Medicine in Village-Level Societies -- Health, Illness, and Medicine in Pastoralist Societies -- Health, Illness, and Medicine in Chiefdom Societies -- Folk Healers in Modern Societies -- Case Study: Are the Therapeutic Aspects of Religion Something That Partially Address Refugee Health Problems? -- Biomedicine as the Predominant Ethnomedicine in Modern Societies -- Hospitals -- Health Anthropology and the Pharmaceutical Industry -- 7.Plural Medical Systems: Complexity, Complementarity, and Conflict -- Introduction and Overview -- A Case Study of Medical Pluralism in a Rural Area in a Developing Society: The Altiplano of Bolivia -- Themes -- Medical Subsystems -- Status of Health Care in Bolivia in the Pre-Revolutionary Era -- Social and Health Conditions in Bolivia after the Election of Indigenous President Evo Morales -- A Case Study of Medical Pluralism in an Urban Setting of a Developing Society: A View from Central Java -- Medical Subsystems -- A Case Study of Medical Pluralism in a Developed Society: The Australian Dominative Medical System -- Medical Subsystems -- Typologies of Plural Medical Systems -- Healing and History -- Patients of CAM -- CAM and Class -- New Directions in the Study of Medical Pluralism -- Medical Syncretism -- Medical Diversity -- Medicoscapes -- The Globalization of Traditional Medicine and CAM -- 8.The Biopolitics of Life: Biotechnology, Biocapital, and Bioethics -- Introduction and Overview -- Critical Health Anthropology and Biotechnology -- Science, Nature, and Culture -- Biocapital: Bodies of Profit -- Reproductive Technologies -- Divisible Bodies -- Bringing the Lab into the Field: Anthropology and the Neurosciences -- Molecular Biotechnologies: Tiny Pieces, Giant Infrastructures -- The Story of hGH---Growing up Growth Hormone -- The Culture of PCR -- Visualization Technologies -- When Technologies Combine -- Ancestry, Families, and Genetics: Biotechnology and Belonging -- 9.Strategies and Visions for a Healthier World -- Introduction and Overview -- Global Capitalism -- Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Pathway for a Healthier World -- Health Anthropology as an Action-Oriented Endeavor.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781538106457 hardcover alkaline paper
1538106450 hardcover alkaline paper
9781538106464 paperback alkaline paper
1538106469 paperback alkaline paper - Note
- "Second edition 2012"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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