The Art of Medical Anthropology
Author | : Sjaak van der Geest |
Publisher | : Het Spinhuis |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : 9789055891061 |
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Author | : Sjaak van der Geest |
Publisher | : Het Spinhuis |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : 9789055891061 |
Author | : Thomas Malcolm Johnson |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Shirley Lindenbaum |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1993-10-04 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0520077857 |
Ranging in time and locale, these essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, are based on research in historical and cultural settings. The contributors accept the notion that all knowledge is socially and culturally constructed and examine the contexts in which that knowledge is produced and practiced in medicine, psychiatry, epidemiology, and anthropology. -- from publisher description.
Author | : Peter J. Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2016-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1315416166 |
The editors of the third edition of the seminal textbook Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology bring it completely up to date for both instructors and students. The collection of 49 readings (17 of them new to this edition) offers extensive background description and exposes students to the breadth of theoretical, methodological, and practical perspectives and issues in the field of medical anthropology. The text provides specific examples and case studies of research as it is applied to a range of health settings: from cross-cultural clinical encounters to cultural analysis of new biomedical technologies and the implementation of programs in global health settings. The new edition features: • a major revision that eliminates many older readings in favor of more fresh, relevant selections; • a new section on structural violence that looks at the impact of poverty and other forms of social marginalization on health; • an updated and expanded section on “Conceptual Tools,” including new research and ideas that are currently driving the field of medical anthropology forward (such as epigenetics and syndemics); • new chapters on climate change, Ebola, PTSD among Iraq/Afghanistan veterans, eating disorders, and autism, among others; • recent articles from Margaret Mead Award winners Sera Young, Seth Holmes, and Erin Finley, along with new articles by such established medical anthropologists as Paul Farmer and Merrill Singer.
Author | : Lola Romanucci-Ross |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : |
This revision of what now has become a classic text in medical anthropology contains a wealth of new material on subjects as diverse as aging, creativity, and ideology. It is both a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of medical anthropology and a reference work. The authors bring new perspectives to our understanding of both Western and non-Western medicine, from the biochemical and physiological aspects of health care in preindustrialized cultures to cultural and ideological factors inherent in past and present Western medical care.
Author | : Michael Winkelman |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 2008-12-05 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0470462612 |
Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address the challenges of cross-cultural medicine through interdisciplinary cultural-ecological models and personal and institutional developmental approaches to cross-cultural adaptation and competency. The book addresses the perspectives of clinically applied anthropology, trans-cultural psychiatry and the medical ecology, critical medical anthropology and symbolic paradigms as frameworks for enhanced comprehension of health and the medical encounter. Includes cultural case studies, applied vignettes, and self-assessments.
Author | : George McClelland Foster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Medical anthropology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Merrill Singer |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2015-04-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1118863216 |
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
Author | : Donald Joralemon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2017-03-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1315470594 |
Now in its fourth edition, Exploring Medical Anthropology provides a concise and engaging introduction to medical anthropology. It presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence. Concrete examples and the author’s personal research experiences are utilized to explain some of the discipline’s most important insights, such as that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of disease and that medical anthropology can help to alleviate human suffering. The text has been thoroughly updated for the fourth edition, including fresh case studies and a new chapter on drugs. It contains a range of pedagogical features to support teaching and learning, including images, text boxes, a glossary, and suggested further reading.
Author | : Carol R. Ember |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 1103 |
Release | : 2003-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0306477548 |
Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and disease are managed in different cultures, the more we can recognize what is "culture bound" in our own medical belief and practice. The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology is unique because it is the first reference work to describe the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures and to provide an overview of important topics in medical anthropology. No other single reference work comes close to marching the depth and breadth of information on the varying cultural background of health and illness around the world. More than 100 experts - anthropologists and other social scientists - have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures from around the world.