Medical anthropology and the world system /
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| Author / Creator: | Baer, Hans A., 1944- |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003. |
| Description: | x, 429 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5117582 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- I.. What Is Medical Anthropology About?
- 1. Medical Anthropology: Central Concepts and Development
- 2. Theoretical Perspectives in Medical Anthropology
- II.. The Social Origins of Disease and Suffering
- 3. Health and the Environment: From Foraging Societies to the Capitalist World System
- 4. Homelessness in the World System
- 5. Legal Addictions, Part I: Demon in a Bottle
- 6. Legal Addictions, Part II: Up in Smoke
- 7. Illicit Drugs: Self-Medicating the Hidden Injuries of Oppression
- 8. AIDS: A Disease of the Global System
- 9. Reproduction and Inequality
- III.. Medical Systems in Social Context
- 10. Medical Systems in Indigenous and Precapitalist State Societies
- 11. Biomedical Hegemony in the Context of Medical Pluralism
- IV.. Toward an Equitable and Healthy Global System
- 12. The Pursuit of Health as a Human Right: Health Praxis and the Struggle for a Healthy World
- Bibliography
- Index
