A Companion to Medical Anthropology 1st Edition by Merrill Singer, Pamela Erickson 1405190027 9781405190022

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ISBN 10: 1405190027

ISBN 13: 9781405190022

Author: Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson

A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today. Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s Written by leading international scholars in medical anthropology Covers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance abuse, infectious disease, and sexuality and reproductive health, and other topics

A Companion to Medical Anthropology 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Theories, Applications, and Methods

Chapter 1: Medical Anthropology in Disciplinary Context: Definitional Struggles and Key Debates – Elisa J. Sobo
Chapter 2: Critical Biocultural Approaches in Medical Anthropology – Tom Leatherman and Alan H. Goodman
Chapter 3: Applied Medical Anthropology: Praxis, Pragmatics, Politics, and Promises – Robert T. Trotter II
Chapter 4: Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology – Clarence C. Gravlee
Chapter 5: Medical Anthropology and Public Policy – Merrill Eisenberg

Part II: Contexts and Conditions

Chapter 6: Culture and the Stress Process – William W. Dressler
Chapter 7: Global Health – Craig R. Janes and Kitty K. Corbett
Chapter 8: Syndemics in Global Health – Merrill Singer, D. Ann Herring, Judith Littleton, and Melanie Rock
Chapter 9: The Ecology of Disease and Health – Patricia K. Townsend
Chapter 10: The Medical Anthropology of Water – Linda M. Whiteford and Cecilia Vindrola-Padros
Chapter 11: Political Violence, War, and Medical Anthropology – Barbara Rylko-Bauer and Merrill Singer

Part III: Health and Behavior

Chapter 12: Humans in a World of Microbes: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease – Peter J. Brown, George J. Armelagos, and Kenneth C. Maes
Chapter 13: Sexuality, Medical Anthropology, and Public Health – Pamela I. Erickson
Chapter 14: Situating Birth in the Anthropology of Reproduction – Carolyn Sargent and Lauren Gulbas
Chapter 15: Nutrition and Health – David A. Himmelgreen, Nancy Romero-Daza, and Charlotte A. Noble
Chapter 16: Anthropologies of Cancer and Risk, Uncertainty, and Disruption – Lenore Manderson
Chapter 17: Generation RX: Anthropological Research on Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Lifestyle Regulation, Self-Medication, and Recreational Drug Use – Gilbert Quintero and Mark Nichter
Chapter 18: Anthropology and the Study of Illicit Drug Use – J. Bryan Page

Part IV: Healthwork—Care, Treatment, and Communication

Chapter 19: Ethnomedicine – Marsha B. Quinlan
Chapter 20: Medical Pluralism: An Evolving and Contested Concept in Medical Anthropology – Hans A. Baer
Chapter 21: Biotechnologies of Care – Julie Park and Ruth Fitzgerald
Chapter 22: Social Interaction and Technology: Cultural Competency and the Universality of Good Manners – Kathryn Coe, Gail Barker, and Craig Palmer
Chapter 23: Biocommunicability – Charles L. Briggs
Chapter 24: Anthropology at the End of Life – Ron Barrett

Part V: The Road Ahead

Chapter 25: Operationalizing a Right to Health: Theorizing a National Health System as a “Commons” – Sandy Smith-Nonini and Beverly Bell
Chapter 26: As the Future Explodes into the Present: Emergent Issues and the Tomorrow of Medical Anthropology – Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson

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