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Introducing medical anthropology : a discipline in action / Merrill Singer and Hans Baer.
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Singer, Merrill
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English
Published/Created
Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, ©2007.
Description
v, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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GN296 .S57 2007
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Medical anthropology
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Physical anthropology
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Social medicine
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Baer, Hans A., 1944-
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Summary note
"This text provides students with a first exposure to the growing field of medical anthropology. It is structured around three unifying themes. First, medical anthropology is actively engaged in helping to address pressing health problems around the world through research, intervention, and policy-related initiatives. Second, illness and disease cannot be fully understood or effectively addressed by treating them solely as biological in nature; rather, health problems involve complex biosocial processes and resolving them requires attention to a range of factors, including systems of belief, structures of social relationships, and environmental conditions. Third, through an examination of health inequalities on one hand, and environmental degradation and environment-related illness on the other, the authors emphasize the need for a comprehensive medical anthropology that integrates biological, cultural, and social factors in order to understand the origin of ill health and to contribute to more effective and equitable health care systems."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-233) and index.
Contents
Why have a medical anthropology?
What medical anthropologists do
What is health? : experiencing illness, knowing disease
Ethnomedicines : the worlds of treatment and healing
Plural medical systems in the contemporary world : complexity, complementarity, and conflict
Health disparity, health inequity
Health and the environment : toward a healthier world
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ISBN
9780759110571 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
0759110573 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
9780759110588 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0759110581 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2007013895
OCLC
122701707
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