Medical anthropology : contemporary theory and method / edited by Carolyn F. Sargent and Thomas M. Johnson.

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Book
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English
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Rev. ed.
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Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996.
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xxi, 557 pages ; 24 cm

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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.
    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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