Understanding and applying medical anthropology : biosocial and cultural approaches /
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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| Imprint: | Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2016] |
| Description: | 460 pages ; 28 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10494272 |
Table of Contents:
- *Indicates new material for this edition
- To the Instructor
- To the Student
- Part I. Understanding Medical Anthropology: Biosocial and Cultural Approaches
- Introduction
- *Peter Brown and Svea Closser, Medical Anthropology: An Introduction to the Fields
- Biosocial Approaches
- Evolution, Health and Medicine
- Conceptual Tools: Evolution, Health and Medicine
- *Jabr, How to Really Eat like a Hunter-Gatherer
- *Howard Chiou, What Is Evolutionary Medicine and How Can It Be Useful?
- *Sera Young, Pica
- Human Biological Variation
- Conceptual Tools: Human Biological Variation
- *Alan Goodman, Why Genes Don't Count (new title)*
- Nina Jablonski, Skin: Its Biology in Black and White
- History of Health
- Conceptual Tools: Bioarchaeology and the History of Health
- Conceptual Tools: Cultural and Political Ecologies of Disease
- *George Armelagos, Peter Brown, and Beth Turner. Evolutionary, Historical and Political
- Economic Perspectives on Health and Disease
- Thomas McKeown, Determinants of Health
- *Merrill Singer and Hans Baer, Applied Medical Anthropology and the Adverse Health Effects of Climate Change
- Cultural Approaches
- Structural Violence
- Conceptual Tools: Structural Violence
- *Peter Brown, Microparasites and Macroparasites
- *Seth Holmes, "Oaxacans Like to Work Bent Over": The Naturalization of Social Suffering among Berry Farm Workers
- *Paul Farmer, Diary Entry on Ebola
- *Merill Singer, Does America Really Want to Solve its Drug Problem?
- Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking: Maternal Detachment and Infant Survival in a Brazilian Shantytown
- Ethnomedicine and Healers
- Conceptual Tools: Ethnomedicine and Healers
- Conceptual Tools: Belief and Healing
- George Foster, Disease Etiologies in Non-Western Medical Systems
- *Pamela Erickson, The Healing Lessons of Ethnomedicine
- Claude Levi-Strauss, The Sorcerer and His Magic
- Daniel Moerman, Cultural Variations in the Placebo Effect: Ulcers, Anxiety, and Blood Pressure
- Robert Hahn, The Nocebo Phenomenon: Concept, Evidence and Implications for Public Health
- The Meaning and Experience of Illness
- Conceptual Tools: The Meaning and Experience of Illness
- Nancy Waxler, Learning to Be a Leper: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Illness
- *Linda Hunt, Strategic Suffering in the Illness Narratives of Mexican Cancer Patients
- Robert Murphy, The Damaged Self
- Biomedicine, Technology, and the Body
- Conceptual Tools: Biomedicine, Technology, and the Body
- *Bisan Sahli, Beyond the Doctor's White Coat: Science, Ritual, and Healing in American Medicine
- Rayna Rapp, Accounting for Amniocentesis
- Marcia Inhorn, Religion and Reproductive Technologies
- *Monir Moniruzzaman, Spare Parts for Sale
- Margaret Lock, Inventing a New Death and Making it Believable
- Culture, Illness, and Mental Health
- Conceptual Tools: Culture, Illness, and Mental Health
- Arthur Kleinman, Do Psychiatric Disorders Differ in Different Cultures?
- Arthur Rubel, The Epidemiology of a Folk Illness: Susto in Hispanic America
- *Roy Richard Grinker, What in the World is Autism?
- *Erin Finley, Of Men and Messages
- *O'Connor and Van Esterlik, Demedicalizing Anorexia
- Part II. Applying Medical Anthropology
- Working with the Culture of Biomedicine
- Conceptual Tools: Working with the Culture of Biomedicine
- Farmer, Niyeze, Stulac, and Keshavjee, Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine
- Berlin and Fowkes, A Teaching Framework for Cross-Cultural Health Care
- Janelle Taylor, Confronting "Culture" in Medicine's "Culture of No Culture"
- Kleinman and Benson, Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Biomedicine and How to Fix it
- Stigma
- Conceptual Tools: Stigma
- *Joan Ablon, The Nature of Stigma and Medical Conditions
- Gaylene Becker, Coping with Stigma: Lifelong Adaptation of Deaf People
- Barrett and Brown, Stigma in the Time of Influenza
- Culture, Ethnicity, and Health Care
- Conceptual Tools: Culture, Ethnicity and Health Care
- Alan Harwood, The Hot-Cold Theory of Disease
- CDC, Health Beliefs and Compliance with Prescribed Medication for Hypertension
- Singer, Valentin, Baer, and Jia, Why
