Anthropology and public health : bridging differences in culture and society /
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | xxi, 730 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7370376 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I. Anthropological Understandings of Public Health Problems
- 1. The Anthropology of Childhood Malaria in Tanzania
- 2. Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in the Medical Marketplace of India: Implications for Efforts to Improve Global Respiratory Health
- 3. Situating Stress: Lessons from Lay Discourses on Diabetes
- 4. Understanding Pregnancy in a Population of Inner-City Women in New Orleans-Results of Qualitative Research
- 5. The Limits of "Heterosexual AIDS": Ethnographic Research on Tourism and Male Sexual Labor in the Dominican Republic
- 6. Male Infertility and Consanguinity in Lebanon: The Power of Ethnographic Epidemiology
- 7. Structural Violence, Political Violence, and the Health Costs of Civil Conflict: A Case Study from Peru
- Part II. Anthropological Design of Public Health Interventions
- 8. Bridges between Mental Health Care and Religious Healing in Puerto Rico: The Outcomes of an Early Experiment
- 9. Indigenization of Illness Support Groups for Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti
- 10. Using Formative Research to Explore and Address Elder Health and Care in Chiapas, Mexico
- 11. Anthropological Contributions to the Development of Culturally Appropriate Tobacco Cessation Programs: A Global Health Priority
- 12. From Street Research to Public Health Intervention: The Hartford Drug Monitoring Project
- 13. Sexual Risk Reduction among Married Women and Men in Urban India: An Anthropological Intervention
- Part III. Anthropological Evaluations of Public Health Initiatives
- 14. Honorable Mutilation? Changing Responses to Female Genital Cutting in Sudan
- 15. Making Pregnancy Safer for Women around the World: The Example of Safe Motherhood and Maternal Death in Guatemala
- 16. Counting on Mother's Love: The Global Politics of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Eastern Africa
- 17. The Brazilian Response to AIDS and the Pharmaceuticalization of Global Health
- 18. Anthropological and Public Health Perspectives on the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in Northern Nigeria
- Part IV. Anthropological Critiques of Public Health Policy
- 19. "Sanitary Makeshifts" and the Perpetuation of Health Stratification in Indonesia
- 20. Global Panic, Local Repercussions: Economic and Nutritional Effects of Bird Flu in Vietnam
- 21. Neoliberal Infections and the Politics of Health: Resurgent Tuberculosis Epidemics in New York City and Lima, Peru
- 22. Biological Citizenship After Chernobyl
- 23. An Ethnographic Evaluation of Post-Alma Ata Health System Reforms in Mongolia: Lessons for Addressing Health Inequities in Poor Communities
- 24. Bureaucratic Aspects of International Health Programs
- Index
