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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-542) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Carolyn F. Sargent and Thomas M. Johnson
1. The Therapeutic Process / Thomas J. Csordas and Arthur Kleinman
2. Political Economy in Medical Anthropology / Soheir A. Morsy
3. A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent / Margaret Lock and Nancy Scheper-Hughes
4. Culture, Emotion, and Psychiatric Disorder / Janis H. Jenkins
5. Clinically Applied Anthropology / Noel J. Chrisman and Thomas M. Johnson
6. Ethnomedicine / Arthur J. Rubel and Michael R. Hass
7. Ethnopsychiatry / Charles C. Hughes
8. Ethnopharmacology: The Conjunction of Medical Ethnography and the Biology of Therapeutic Action / Nina L. Etkin
9. Studying Biomedicine as a Cultural System / Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes
10. Disease, Ecology, and Human Behavior / Peter J. Brown, Marcia C. Inhorn and Daniel J. Smith
11. Anthropology and Studies of Human Reproduction / Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent --
12. Alcohol and Drug Studies / Linda A. Bennett and Paul W. Cook, Jr.
13. Culture, Stress, and Disease / William W. Dressler
14. Nutrition in Medical Anthropology / Sara A. Quandt
15. Research Designs in Medical Anthropology / Pertti J. Pelto and Gretel H. Pelto
16. Epidemiology and Medical Anthropology / William R. True
17. Bioethics in Anthropology: Perspectives on Culture, Medicine, and Morality / Patricia A. Marshall and Barbara A. Koenig
18. The Professionalization of Indigenous Healers / Murray Last
19. International Health: Problems and Programs in Anthropological Perspective / Sandra D. Lane and Robert A. Rubinstein.
ISBN
0275952657 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
96166387
OCLC
35172944
RCP
C - S
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