Medical Anthropology

Contemporary Theory and Method

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Medical Anthropology

Contemporary Theory and Method

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A significant update of the 1990 classic state-of-the-art handbook on medical anthropology. With new chapters on AIDS, psychology and emotion, nutrition, and bioethics, the text reflects the changes in medical anthropological theory and practice since the late 1980s. Chapters from the first edition are revised to reflect current trends and to include recent references. This work demonstrates the creative expansion and diversity in the field, amidst efforts to explore the individual sickness experience in the context of local cultures and global political and economic dynamics.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Carolyn F. Sargent and Thomas M. Johnson
Theoretical Perspectives
The Therapeutic Process by Thomas J. Csordas and Arthur Kleinman
Political Economy in Medical Anthropology by Soheir Morsy
A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent by Margaret Lock and Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Emotion and Psychopathology by Janis H. Jenkins
Clinically Applied Anthropology by Noel J. Chrisman and Thomas M. Johnson
Medical Systems
Ethnomedicine by Arthur J. Rubel and Michael R. Hass
Ethnopsychiatry by Charles C. Hughes
Ethnopharmacology: The Conjunction of Medical Ethnography and the Biology of Therapeutic Action by Nina L. Etkin
Studying Biomedicine as a Cultural System by Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes
Health Issues in Human Populations
Disease, Ecology, and Human Behavior by Peter J. Brown, Marcia C. Inhorn, and Daniel J. Smith
Anthropology and Studies of Human Reproduction by Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent
Alcohol and Drug Studies by Linda A. Bennett and Paul W. Cook, Jr.
Culture, Stress, and Disease by William W. Dressler
Nutrition in Medical Anthropology by Sara A. Quandt
Methods in Medical Anthropology
Research Designs in Medical Anthropology by Pertti J. Pelto and Gretel H. Pelto
Epidemiology and Medical Anthropology by William R. True
Policy and Advocacy
Bioethics in Anthropology by Patricia Marshall and Barbara Koenig
Professionalization of Indigenous Healers by Murray Last
International Health and Development by Sandra S. Lane and Robert A. Rubinstein
References
Index

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Published May 30 1996
Format Paperback
Edition 2nd
Extent 580
ISBN 9780275952655
Imprint Praeger
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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