Introducing medical anthropology : a discipline in action /

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Author / Creator:Singer, Merrill.
Imprint:Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2012.
Description:viii, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8547651
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Other authors / contributors:Baer, Hans A., 1944-
ISBN:9780759120884 (cloth : alk. paper)
0759120889 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780759120891 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0759120897 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780759120907 (ebook)
0759120900 (ebook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Introduction to Medical Anthropology
  • Chapter 2. What Medical Anthropologists Do
  • Chapter 3. Understanding Health, Illness, and Disease
  • Chapter 4. Ethnomedicine: The Worlds of Treatment and Healing
  • Chapter 5. Medical Pluralism in the Contemporary World
  • Chapter 6. Health Disparity, Health Inequality
  • Chapter 7. Health and the Environment: Toward a Healthier World
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Source Material for Students
  • Index
  • About the Authors