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Subject(s)

• Medical anthropology [Browse]

Editor

• Singer, Merrill [Browse]
• Erickson, Pamela I. (Pamela Irene), 1951- [Browse]

Series

Blackwell companions in anthropology ; 8

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print versio record.

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.

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ISBN

• 1-4443-9529-7
• 1-4443-9528-9

OCLC

746321040

Other standard number

• 9786613408235

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