Books written by Hans A. Baer
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Medical Anthropology and the World System
Can Public Policies Limit the Spread of HIV among IV Drug Users ? " Journal of Drug Issues 19 : 113–28 . Cook , Rebecca . 1999. “ Gender , Health and Human Rights . ” In Health and Human Rights , ed . Jonathan Mann , Sofia Gruskin ...
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Medical Anthropology and the World System: A Critical Perspective
New York : Harper and Row . Field , Peter . 1962. A New Cross - Cultural Study of ... Fineberg , H. 1988. The Social Dimensions of AIDS . Scientific American , October . Pp . 128-134 . Firestone , H. 1957. Cats , Kicks , and Color .
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Airplanes, the Environment, and the Human Condition
Saint-Exupery, A. 1939. Wind, Sand and Stars. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin; 1966 edition, trans. L. Galantiere. Salter, Mark B. 2008a. Introduction: Airport assemblage. In Politics at the Airport. Mark B. Salter ed. Pp. ix–xix.
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The Black Spiritual Movement: A Religious Response to Racism
... made the term “ Spiritual ” a “ dirty ” one , and they substituted the more respectable term “ Christian . ” After the founder of the new association died in 1970 , her daughter , Bishop Anderson , was elected its Supreme Bishop .
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African American Religion: Varieties of Protest and Accommodation
Mother Leafy Anderson , a black Spiritualist who was destined to play an instrumental role in the development of the Spiritual religion in New Orleans , established the Eternal Life Christian Spiritualist Church in Chicago in 1913 ...
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Urban Eco-Communities in Australia: Real Utopian Responses to the Ecological Crisis or Niche Markets?
In P. Beilharz & T. Hogan (Eds.), Sociology: Antipodean perspectives (2nd ed., pp. 19–25). South Melbourne, Vic: Oxford University Press. Holden, E., & Norland, I. T. (2005). Three challenges for the compact city as a sustainable urban ...
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Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia: Transitioning to an Alternative World System
Parenti, Michael. 1997. Blackshirts & Red: Rational Fascism & the Overthrow of Communism. ... Piper, Karen. 2014. The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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Grappling with Societies and Institutions in an Era of Socio-Ecological Crisis: Journey of a Radical Anthropologist
Sommer/Herbst 1989 – 18 Maerz 1990. Berlin: Kommission Bildung des Parteivorstandes der PDS. Bradley, James. Holding on to madness: How an infatuation is keeping Adani's Mine alive. The Monthly 19–39. means: Brown, Barbara Jones. 2015.
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Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action
This new text provides students with a first exposure to the growing field of medical anthropology.
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Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action
Third, through an examination of health inequalities on the one hand and environmental degradation and environment-related illness on the other, the book underlines the need for going beyond cultural or even ecological models of health ...
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Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives, 3rd Edition: Critical Perspectives
Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related behavior, and health care in light of social and health inequality as well as structural violence.
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Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives
This intriguing volume offers a comparative examination of early medicine and health care in regions as varied as ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China, the Islamic world, and medieval Europe. Book jacket.
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Crumbling Walls and Tarnished Ideals: An Ethnography of East Germany Before and After Unification
This book presents a corrective to conventional portrayals of East German society, both before and after the opening of the Wall in 1989, based largely upon data obtained through participant...
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Toward an Integrative Medicine: Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine
The ups, downs and interlinkages of nurse- and direct-entry— midwifery: Status, practice and education. ... Dean, K. L. (2001). NYU's holistic nursing ... The clinical practice of complementary, alternative, and Western medicine.
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Medical Anthropology and the World System: A Critical Perspective
Medical anthropology is one of the youngest and most dynamic of the various subdisciplines within anthropology. Critical medical anthropology has evolved into one of the major perspectives through which faculty...
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Killer commodities: public health and the corporate production of harm
Modern Biopsychiatry: Caught between Killer Commodities and Killer Markets In the 1990s pharmaceutical salespersons, or drug reps, in Wisconsin often described the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) market, which through the ...
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African Americans in the South: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender
This volume reflects a new commitment by American anthropologists to engage in what has been called the anthropology of racism: the analysis of systems of inequality based on biological differences.
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Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative World System
with tremendous natural resources, has become home to the poorest people in the world. According to Maddison (2001), 57 African countries were worse off in terms of per capita GDP in 1998 compared with 1950. Table 2.1 shows the number ...
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Toward an Integrative Medicine: Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine
Baer's exciting new book chronicles the transformation of the holistic health movement as it increasingly influences the delivery of health care in America.
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Naturopathy Around the World: Variations and Political Dilemmas of an Eclectic Heterdox Medical System
This book constitutes the first effort to provide a broad social historical and ethonographic account, particularly in the United States, Canada, and Australia, but to a lesser extent in Germany, Britian, New Zealand and India.