Medical anthropology : contemporary theory and method /

Medical anthropology : contemporary theory and method /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Praeger, 1990.
Description:	479 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Medical anthropology Medical anthropology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1065041

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Other authors / contributors:	Johnson, Thomas M. (Thomas Malcolm), 1947- Sargent, Carolyn F., 1947-
ISBN:	0275937534 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. committed to retain 20170930 20421213 HathiTrust

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Theoretical Perspectives
The Therapeutic Process
Political Economy in Medical Anthropology
A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology
Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent
Emotion and Psychopathology
Clinically Applied Anthropology
Medical Systems Ethnomedicine
Ethnopsychiatry
Ethnopharmacology
The Conjunction of Medical Ethnography and the Biology of Therapeutic Action
Studying Biomedicine as a Cultural System
Health Issues in Human Populations Disease, Ecology, and Human Behavior
Anthropology and Studies of Human Reproduction
Alcohol and Drug Studies
Culture, Stress, and Disease
Nutrition in Medical Anthropology
Methods in Medical Anthropology Research Designs in Medical Anthropology
Epidemiology and Medical Anthropology
Policy and Advocacy Bioethics in Anthropology
Professionalization of Indigenous Healers
Last International Health and Development
References
Index