Medical anthropology and the world system : critical perspectives /
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| Author / Creator: | Baer, Hans A., 1944- |
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Imprint: | Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2013] |
| Description: | xii, 521 pages ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9143594 |
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. The Impact of Climate Change, Environmental Crises, and Disasters on Health
- 5. Poverty, Injustice, and Health in the World System
- 6. Reproduction, Biotechnologies, and Inequality
- III. Social Diseases and Social Suffering
- 7. Violence and War
- 8. Legal and Illegal Drugs: Experience, behavior, and Society
- 9. AIDS and Infectious Diseases
- 10. Syndemics and the Biosocial Nature of Health
- IV. Medical Systems in a Social Context
- 11. Medical Systems in Indigenous and Precapitalist and Early Capitalist State Societies
- 12. Biomedical Hegemony in the Context of Medical Pluralism
- V. Toward an Equitable and Healthy Global System
- 13. Health Praxis and the Struggle for a Healthy, Socially Just, and Environmentally Sustainable World System
- Bibliography
- About the Authors
- Index
