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

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Book
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English
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1st ed.
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
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1 online resource (xxxi, 541 pages)

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Blackwell companions in anthropology ; 8
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A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today. * Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s * Written by leading international scholars in medical anthropology * Covers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance abuse, infectious disease, and sexuality and reproductive health, and other topics
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
  • Intro
  • Series page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Synopsis of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgments - Personal
  • Acknowledgments - Sources
  • Introduction
  • PART I Theories, Applications, and Methods
  • CHAPTER 1 Medical Anthropology in Disciplinary Context: Definitional Struggles and Key Debates (or Answering the Cri Du Coeur)
  • INTRODUCTION
  • MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY TAKES SHAPE
  • CULTURAL INTERESTS ASSUME THE LEAD
  • WHAT IS CULTURE?
  • CRITICAL APPROACHES
  • ANTHROPOLOGY OF MEDICINE, IN POLITICAL AND THEORETICAL CONTEXT
  • MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN RECENT YEARS
  • PERSISTENT DEBASES?
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CHAPTER 2 Critical Biocultural Approaches in Medical Anthropology
  • EMERGENCE OF A CRITICAL BIOCULTURAL APPROACH
  • CRITICAL BIOCULTURAL APPROACHES IN STUDIES OF HUMAN HEALTH
  • NEW DIRECTIONS
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • CHAPTER 3 Applied Medical Anthropology: Praxis, Pragmatics, Politics, and Promises
  • THEORY IN APPLIED MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
  • USING THEORY AND APPLYING METHODS: THE MARRIAGE OF MIDRANGE THEORY AND THEORETICALLY DRIVEN METHODS TO ACCOMPLISH CHANGE
  • THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ABLE TO TELL PEOPLE HOW YOU ARE GOING TO DO SOMETHING: METHODS IN APPLIED MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
  • CROSS CULTURAL APPLICABILITY MIDRANGE THEORY AND METHODS
  • RAPID ASSESSMENT AS A METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK: COMBINING EMERGENT THEORY WITH MIDRANGE THEORY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS
  • ETHICS AND APPLIED MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A COMFORTABLE FIT3
  • EPILOGUE
  • CHAPTER 4 Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology
  • RESEARCH DESIGN
  • SAMPLING
  • DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
  • CONCLUSION: LOOKING AHEAD
  • CHAPTER 5 Medical Anthropology and Public Policy
  • THE POLICY ENDEAVOR: REGULATING HUMAN BEHAVIOR.
  • POLICY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY RESEARCH
  • RESEARCH TO ACTION
  • ETHNOGRAPHY, FRAMEWORKS, MODELS, AND THEORIES OF POLICY MAKING
  • COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT
  • THE PRACTICE OF A POLICY-ORIENTED MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
  • PART II Contexts and Conditions
  • CHAPTER 6 Culture and the Stress Process
  • RESEARCH ON CULTURE CHANGE AND HEALTH
  • CULTURE AND MODELS OF THE STRESS PROCESS
  • CULTURAL CONSENSUS, CULTURAL CONSONANCE AND HEALTH
  • CONCLUSION
  • CHAPTER 7 Global Health
  • DEFINING GLOBAL HEALTH
  • THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
  • GLOBAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  • INTERNATIONAL HEALTH POLICY
  • THE SOCIAL RELATIONS OF GLOBAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT
  • CHAPTER 8 Syndemics in Global Health
  • OVERVIEW OF SYNDEMICS
  • SYNDEMIC RESEARCH
  • ANIMAL-HUMAN CONNECTIONS IN SYNDEMICS
  • SYNDEMICS IN HISTORY: CASE STUDY 1
  • A CONTEMPORARY SYNDEMIC: CASE STUDY 2
  • SYNDEMICS, MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, AND THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL HEALTH
  • CHAPTER 9 The Ecology of Disease and Health
  • ADAPTATION AND MALARIA
  • FORAGERS AND FARMERS
  • ECOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: NUTRITION AND HEALTH
  • TECHNOLOGICAL DISASTERS AND TOXIC SITES
  • ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH
  • CHAPTER 10 The Medical Anthropology of Water
  • THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF WATER
  • A MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY PERSPECTIVE ON WATER AND HEALTH
  • THE CASE OF CHOLERA - A WATER-BORNE EPIDEMIC
  • THE CASE OF DENGUE FEVER - A VECTOR-BORNE OUTBREAK
  • ANTHROPOLOGY AND WATER POLICY
  • CHAPTER 11 Political Violence, War and Medical Anthropology
  • THE MAKING OF A MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AGAINST WAR
  • DENATURALIZING VIOLENCE
  • REVISUALIZING WAR AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE: ANTHROPOLOGY'S "COUNTERGAZE"
  • RECONCEPTUALIZING WAR AS A COMPLEX BIOSOCIAL DISEASE.
  • APPLYING MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN ZONES OF WAR AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE
  • CONCLUSION: WAR, VIOLENCE AND THE FUTURE OF MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
  • PART III Health and Behavior
  • CHAPTER 12 Humans in a World of Microbes: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease
  • CULTURE, ECOLOGY AND THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
  • INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN HISTORY: EPIDEMICS AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS
  • MODES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION REFLECT SOCIAL REALITIES
  • THE HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC IN AFRICA ILLUSTRATES COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL, POLITICAL AND CULTURAL INTERACTIONS
  • CHAPTER 13 Sexuality, Medical Anthropology, and Public Health
  • THE FRAUGHT LEGITIMIZING PROCESS IN SEX RESEARCH
  • CULTURAL BARRIERS TO THE STUDY OF SEXUALITY
  • REDISCOVERING SEX IN THE 1980S
  • HIV/AIDS AND THE NEED FOR SEX INFORMATION
  • DECONSTRUCTING IRRATIONAL SEXUAL "CHOICES"
  • CLEAVAGES AND CAMPS: 1980S AND 1990S
  • SEXUALITY , REPRODUCTION, GENDER DIVERSITY, LOVE, AND QUEER THEORY
  • CONTEXTUALIZING SEXUAL BEHAVIOR FOR THE HEALTH FIELD
  • TRANSLATING KNOWLEDGE TO ACTION
  • CHAPTER 14 Situating Birth in the Anthropology of Reproduction
  • FROM FEMINIST ACTIVISM TO WOMEN's HEALTH
  • MEDICALIZATION OF CHILDBIRTH AND THE CONTINUED INFLUENCE OF BIOTECHNOLOGIES
  • THE DIALECTIC OF FETAL RIGHTS AND REPRODUCTIVE GOALS
  • A NOTE ON LOW-TECHNOLOGY BIRTHING SYSTEMS
  • MIDWIFERY
  • MISSING MEN
  • LOCALES AND LEVELS OF ANALYSIS
  • LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
  • CHAPTER 15 Nutrition and Health
  • THEME I: GLOBALIZATION, DIET, LIFESTYLE, AND OBESOGENIC ENVIRONMENTS
  • THEME II: GENDER ISSUES AND NUTRITIONAL HEALTH
  • THEME III: NUTRITION AND HEALTH IN BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • CHAPTER 16 Anthropologies of Cancer and Risk, Uncertainty and Disruption
  • PROLOGUE
  • BACKGROUND
  • THE MEANING OF RISK
  • UNDERSTANDING CAUSES.
  • THE PROBLEM WITH SCREENING
  • FEAR, DELAY AND TRUTH TELLING
  • UNSETTLING IDENTITY AND EVERYDAY LIFE
  • CHAPTER 17 Generation RX: Anthropological Research on Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Lifestyle Regulation, Self-Medication and Recreational Drug Use
  • EMERGING DRUG USE TRENDS IN SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT
  • CHAPTER 18 Anthropology and the Study of Illicit Drug Use
  • ACADEMIC HUNTING-AND-GATHERING
  • MIXED METHODS
  • WHAT WE KNOW AND HOW WE KNOW IT
  • PART IV Healthwork: Care, Treatment, and Communication
  • CHAPTER 19 Ethnomedicine
  • WHAT IS ETHNOMEDICINE?
  • EXPLANATORY MODELS
  • EXPLANATION AND TREATMENT
  • CHAPTER 20 Medical Pluralism: An Evolving and Contested Concept in Medical Anthropology
  • CHARLES LESLIE AND MEDICAL PLURALISM
  • THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES INTERPRETATIONS OF MEDICAL PLURALISM
  • THE STANCE OF VARIOUS NATIONAL SOCIO-CULTURAL SYSTEMS TOWARD MEDICAL PLURALISM
  • MEDICAL SYNCRETISM AND THE TRANSNATIONALIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION OF MEDICAL SYSTEMS
  • CHAPTER 21 Biotechnologies of Care
  • COMMUNITY CONTEXT
  • HOSPITAL CONTEXT
  • EMBODIED CONTEXTS
  • DISCURSIVE PUBLIC CONTEXTS
  • CHAPTER 22 Social Interaction and Technology: Cultural Competency and the Universality of Good Manners
  • PERCEIVED IMPORTANCE OF AND METHODS FOR TEACHING CULTURAL COMPETENCY
  • CULTURAL COMPETENCY AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF GOOD MANNERS
  • BIOLOGY, LEARNING AND GOOD MANNERS
  • THE BREAKDOWN OF CULTURE AND LOSS OF MANNERS
  • APPLYING THE KEY ELEMENTS OF GOOD MANNERS
  • TECHNOLOGY, THE FUTURE, AND GOOD MANNERS
  • CHAPTER 23 Biocommunicability
  • (BIO)MEDICALIZATION AND LINGUSTIFICATION
  • LINGUISTIFICATION IN THE ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVES IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY.
  • FROM COMMUNICATION TO COMMUNICABILITY
  • WHAT CAN COMMUNICABLE CARTOGRAPHIES TELL US?
  • CHAPTER 24 Anthropology at the End of Life
  • EXPERIENCE-NEAR THANATOLOGY
  • THE GOOD DEATH: IDEALS AND REALITIES
  • DENIAL AND HEALING UNTO DEATH
  • HOSPICE CARE IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES
  • PART V The Road Ahead
  • CHAPTER 25 Operationalizing a Right to Health: Theorizing a National Health System as a "Commons"
  • WHAT IS GAINED BY DISCUSSING "A HEALTHCARE COMMONS?"
  • WHY IS HEALTH CARE SO SELDOM THOUGHT OF AS A "COMMONS?"
  • WHY A HEALTH CARE COMMONS IS SUPERIOR TO A MARKET
  • ANATOMY OF A WORLD CLASS HEALTH SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY OF FRANCE
  • ARE NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEMS EXAMPLES OF EVOLVING "COMMONS?"
  • CHALLENGES THAT A HEALTH CARE COMMONS MUST OVERCOME
  • "YOU HAVE BEEN WELL-TREATED:" A GOOD DOCTOR DESERVES A GOOD SYSTEM
  • CHAPTER 26 As the Future Explodes into the Present: Emergent Issues and the Tomorrow of Medical Anthropology
  • ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE
  • HEALTH EFFECTS OF GLOBALISM INTENSIFIED
  • ANTHROPOGENESIS AND THE GROWING CRISIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
  • PATHOGENS GONE WILD
  • THE PROFITABLE BODY
  • MODERN WAR AND DAILY VIOLENCE
  • HUMAN RIGHTS AND INHUMAN WRONGS
  • THE DEMAND FOR RELEVANCE AND THE APPLICATION OF MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
  • Index.
ISBN
  • 9781444395297
  • 1444395297
  • 9781444395280
  • 1444395289
OCLC
746321040
Other standard number
  • 9786613408235
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