This book synthesizes the flourishing field of anthropology of infectious disease in a critical, biocultural framework, advancing research in this multifaceted area and offering an ideal supplemental text.
Featuring contributions from noted scholars in medical anthropology, environmental and public health studies, and related fields in the social sciences, this timely volume gets to the root of such broad concerns as to the reasons why humans ...
In examining the experience of a physician on the frontlines of reforming health care, the book critiques the restrictive nature of the dominant clinical model of medicine and argues for a radically expanded focus for modern-day medical ...
Employing the experience-near anthropological lens to consider human social life in an environmental context, this book examines the fateful global intersection of ongoing climate change and widening social inequality.
The text illustrates how eco-crisis interaction—the synergistic interface of two or more environmental events or pollutants—can multiply to produce harmful health effects that are greater than their additive impact.
By contrast, this book argues that the social construction of some people as useless is in fact extremely useful to other people.
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.
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.
The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the last ten years.
In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of ...
The text illustrates how eco-crisis interaction—the synergistic interface of two or more environmental events or pollutants—can multiply to produce harmful health effects that are greater than their additive impact.
The Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology offers a series of comprehensive syntheses of the traditional subdisciplines, primary subjects, ... A Companion to Dental Anthropology, edited by Joel D. Irish and G. Richard Scott 30.
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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...
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 ...
Affordable and conceptually accessible, this succinct volume captures the distinctive anthropological perspective on global health issues for undergraduates in the social and health sciences.
Unique to this book is its attempt to understand the forces that contribute to the risky behavior of drug use, even at a time when drug users know about its deadly and damaging connection to diseases like HIV and hepatitis.
The Blackwell Companions to Anthropology offers a series of comprehensive syntheses of the traditional ... D. Fischer A Companion to Cultural Resource Management, edited by Thomas King A Companion to the Anthropology of Education, ...
Stigma Syndemics explores the linkages of social stigmatization and structural conditions and examines how these societal forces affect human health.
A detailed ethnographic description of the AIDS epidemic in ten U.S. cities and the U.S. Virgin Islands.