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A companion to medical anthropology / edited by Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson

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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxi, 541 pages).
Additional Creators
Singer, Merrill and Erickson, Pamela I. (Pamela Irene), 1951-
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Theories, Applications, and Methods -- 1. Medical Anthropology in Disciplinary Context: Definitional Struggles and Key Debates (or Answering the Cri Du Coeur) / Elisa J. Sobo -- 2. Critical Biocultural Approaches in Medical Anthropology / Alan H. Goodman -- 3. Applied Medical Anthropology: Praxis, Pragmatics, Politics, and Promises / Robert T. Trotter, II -- 4. Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology / Clarence C. Gravlee -- 5. Medical Anthropology and Public Policy / Merrill Eisenberg -- pt. II Contexts and Conditions -- 6. Culture and the Stress Process / William W. Dressler -- 7. Global Health / Kitty K. Corbett -- 8. Syndemics in Global Health / Melanie Rock., 9. The Ecology of Disease and Health / Patricia K. Townsend -- 10. The Medical Anthropology of Water / Cecilia Vindrola Padros -- 11. Political Violence, War and Medical Anthropology / Merrill Singer -- pt. III Health and Behavior -- 12. Humans in a World of Microbes: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease / Kenneth C. Maes -- 13. Sexuality, Medical Anthropology, and Public Health / Pamela I. Erickson -- 14. Situating Birth in the Anthropology of Reproduction / Lauren Gulbas -- 15. Nutrition and Health / Charlotte A. Noble -- 16. Anthropologies of Cancer and Risk, Uncertainty and Disruption / Lenore Manderson -- 17. Generation RX: Anthropological Research on Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Lifestyle Regulation, Self-Medication and Recreational Drug Use / Mark Nichter., and 18. Anthropology and the Study of Illicit Drug Use / J. Bryan Page -- pt. IV Healthwork: Care, Treatment, and Communication -- 19. Ethnomedicine / Marsha B. Quinlan -- 20. Medical Pluralism: An Evolving and Contested Concept in Medical Anthropology / Hans A. Baer -- 21. Biotechnologies of Care / Ruth Fitzgerald -- 22. Social Interaction and Technology: Cultural Competency and the Universality of Good Manners / Craig Palmer -- 23. Biocommunicability / Charles L. Briggs -- 24. Anthropology at the End of Life / Ron Barrett -- pt. V The Road Ahead -- 25. Operationalizing a Right to Health: Theorizing a National Health System as a "Commons" / Beverly Bell -- 26. As the Future Explodes into the Present: Emergent Issues and the Tomorrow of Medical Anthropology / Pamela I. Erickson.
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"--
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ISBN
9781119718963 (electronic bk.)
1119718961 (electronic bk.)
9781405190022
1405190027
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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