Medical anthropology in ecological perspective /
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| Author / Creator: | McElroy, Ann, author |
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| Edition: | Sixth edition. |
| Imprint: | Boulder, CO : Westview Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015] ©2015 |
| Description: | xvii, 382 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10122579 |
Table of Contents:
- About the Authors and Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1. The Ecology of Health and Disease
- Environment, Culture, and Health
- Anthropological Subdisciplines and Medical Anthropology
- Profile: Arctic Adaptations
- A Working Model of Ecology and Health
- Recommended Readings
- Chapter 2. Research Methods in Health Problems
- Anthropological Approaches to the Use of Medicinal Plants
- Bioenvironmental Data
- Profile: Cannibal Mourners
- Clinical Data
- Epidemiological Data
- Social and Cultural Data
- Recommended Readings
- Chapter 3. Human Biocultural Diversity and Health
- Evolution and Biological Diversity
- Human Immune Systems and Defense Against Disease
- Mutation, Genetic Change, and Disease Resistance
- Profile: Malaria and African Agriculture
- Evolution and Medicine
- Skin Color and Adaptation
- Recommended Readings
- Chapter 4. The Prehistory of Disease
- Paleopathology: The Study of Disease in Prehistory
- Nutrition and the Transition to Agriculture
- Profile: Dry Bones: Health in Southwestern Prehistory
- Beyond the Skeleton: Icemen and Mummies
- Daily Life in the Past: Clues from the Skeleton
- Violence and Inequality
- The Emergence of Cities
- Forensic Anthropology: Contemporary Applications
- Recommended Readings
- Chapter 5. Emerging Diseases of the 21st Century
- The Ecology of Disease in the Anthropocene
- Profile: The Medical Ecology of Cholera in Ecuador
- Emerging Diseases in Aging Populations
- Recommended Readings
- Chapter 6. Changing Population and Environmental Hazards Throughout Human History
- The Anthropological Study of Population
- Profile: Stress, Alcohol, and Demographic Change in Northern Siberia
- Environmental Trauma in Industrial Societies
- Recommended Readings
- Chapter 7. Human Reproduction as a Biocultural Process
- Evolutionary and Ecological Influences on Reproduction
- Pregnancy
- Profile: Three Birth Stories
- Care Providers in Pregnancy and Birth
- Birth Alternatives
- Maternal Mortality
- Toward an Ecology of Birth
- Recommended Readings
- Chapter 8. The Ecology of Nutrition
- Human Nutritional Requirements
- Subsistence by Hunting and Gathering
- Subsistence in the Humid Tropics
- Agriculture
- Profile: Local Differences in Iodine Deficiency Goiter in the Western Himalaya
- Industrial Agriculture
- The Anthropology of Food and Cooking
- Food, Medicine, or Drug?
- Recommended Readings
- Chapter 9. The Global Economy of Food: Stuffed or Starved
- Globalization and Food Systems
- The Obesity Epidemic: Alternative Interpretations
- Nutrition and Child Growth
- Food Insecurity
- Profile: Famine in Ethiopia
- Recommended Readings
- Chapter 10. Stress, Trauma, and Mental Illness
- Responding to Trauma: The Stress Concept
- Understanding the Physiology of Stress
- Can Stress Induce Healing?
- Biomarkers of Stress
- Stress and Psychiatric Disorders
- Profile: Legacies of War
- Culture-Bound Syndromes
- Resilience: A Buffer Against Stress
- Stress and Evolutionary Adaptedness
- Recommended Readings
- Chapter 11. Health Resources for Vulnerable Populations
- Change and Vulnerability
- Repercussions of Culture Contact on Health in the Arctic
- Profile: Culture Change and Inuit Health: Two Families
- Health Care for Displaced Populations
- Medical Pluralism
- Health Disparities
- Living with Disability and Coping with Vulnerability
- Recommended Readings
- Chapter 12. Health Costs and Benefits of Globalization
- Spirit Possession and Responses to Industrialization in Malaysia
- Globalization and Health
- Evaluating the Health Effects of Agricultural Development
- Strategies for Improving Health
- Paying the Costs of Industrial Development
- Profile: Hazardous Waste and the Mohawks at Akwesasne
- Recommended Readings
- Chapter 13. First, Do No Harm: Ethics in Medical Anthropology
- Medical Anthropology and Bioethics
- Profile: Using Anthropological Methods to Understand Condom Use for Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention in the Inner City
- Difficulties in Following Bioethical Regulations in Anthropological Research
- Ethical Dilemmas in the Field
- Ethical Regulation and Conflicts in Anthropology
- Activism, Engaged Anthropology, and Participatory Research
- Recommended Readings
- Chapter 14. Applying Medical Anthropology in Health Careers
- Medical Anthropologists in International Health
- Career Paths in Medical Anthropology
- Profile: Learning Field Methods in Costa Rica
- Anthropology and Public Policy
- Recommended Readings
- References Cited
- Index
