Understanding and applying medical anthropology /
[Publisher-supplied data] This collection of 49 readings with extensive background description exposes students to the breadth of theoretical 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...
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Understanding and applying medical anthropology / |c [edited by] Peter J. Brown and Ronald L. Barrett |
| 250 | |a 2nd ed | ||
| 250 | |a Second edition | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Applying medical anthropology -- Case studies in explanatory models -- Ethnomedical beliefs and patient adherence to a treatment regimen: a St. Lucian example -- Health beliefs and compliance with prescribed medication for hypertension among black women: New Orleans 1986-86 -- Working with culture of biomedicine -- Anthropology and the world of physicians -- Teaching framework for cross-cultural health care -- Confronting culture in medicine's culture of no culture -- Anthropology in the clinic: the problem of cultural competency and how to fix it -- Ethnicity and health care -- Case of lead poisoning from folk remedies in Mexican American communities -- Why does Juan García have a drinking problem? The perspective of critical medical anthropology -- Understanding masculinity and the challenges of managing type-2 diabetes among African-American men -- Stigma and coping with chronic illness -- Coping with stigma: lifelong adaptation of deaf people --^ | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Doctor's white coat: the image of the physician in modern America -- Belief and healing -- Sorcerer and his magic -- Doctors and patients: the role of clinicians in the placebo effect -- Nocebo phenomenon: concept, evidence, and implications for public health -- Meaning and experience of illness -- Learning to be a leper: a case study in the social construction of illness -- Strategic suffering: illness narratives as social empowerment among Mexican cancer patients -- Damaged self -- Biomedicine, technology, and the body -- Accounting for amniocentesis -- Religion and reproductive technologies -- Rethinking the biological clock: eleventh-hour moms, miracle moms, and meanings of age-related infertility -- Inventing a new death and making it believable -- Culture, illness, and mental health -- Do psychiatric disorders differ in different cultures? -- Epidemiology of a folk illness: Susto in Hispanic America -- Seeking to escape the suffering of existence: internet suicide in Japan --^ | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Genital herpes: an ethnographic inquiry into being discreditable in American society -- Stigma in the time of influenza: social and institutional responses to pandemic emergencies -- AIDS as human suffering -- Gender and health -- Medical metaphors of women's bodies: menstruation and menopause -- Turn-taking in doctor-patient dialogues -- Culture, scarcity, and maternal thinking: maternal detachment and infant survival in a Brazilian shantytown -- Culture and nutrition: fat and thin -- Biocultural approach in nutritional anthropology: case studies of malnutrition in Mali -- Anthropological perspective on obesity -- Global health issues and programs -- Saving the children for the tobacco industry -- Ethnomedicine and oral rehydration therapy: a case study of ethnomedical investigation and program planning -- New challenges to the AIDS prevention paradigm | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Understanding medical anthropology: biosocial and cultural approaches -- Medical anthropology: an introduction to the fields -- Biosocial approaches -- Evolution, health, and medicine -- Stone agers in the fast lane: chronic degenerative diseases in evolutionary perspective -- How is Darwinian medicine useful? -- Human biological variation -- Tall and short of it -- Why genes don't count (for racial differences in health) -- Skin deep -- Bioarchaeology and the history of health -- Health and disease in prehistoric populations in transition -- Determinants of health -- Cultural approaches -- Cultural and political ecologies of disease -- Cultural adapatations to endemic malaria in Sardinia -- Social inequalities and emerging infectious diseases -- Why is it easier to get drugs than drug treatment in the United States? -- Ethnomedicine and healers -- Disease etiologies in non-western medical systems -- Transcendental medication -- Doctor's white coat: the image of the physician in modern America -- Belief and healing -- Sorcerer and his magic -- Doctors and patients: the role of clinicians in the placebo effect -- Nocebo phenomenon: concept, evidence, and implications for public health -- Meaning and experience of illness -- Learning to be a leper: a case study in the social construction of illness -- Strategic suffering: illness narratives as social empowerment among Mexican cancer patients -- Damaged self -- Biomedicine, technology, and the body -- Accounting for amniocentesis -- Religion and reproductive technologies -- Rethinking the biological clock: eleventh-hour moms, miracle moms, and meanings of age-related infertility -- Inventing a new death and making it believable -- Culture, illness, and mental health -- Do psychiatric disorders differ in different cultures? -- Epidemiology of a folk illness: Susto in Hispanic America -- Seeking to escape the suffering of existence: internet suicide in Japan -- Applying medical anthropology -- Case studies in explanatory models -- Ethnomedical beliefs and patient adherence to a treatment regimen: a St. Lucian example -- Health beliefs and compliance with prescribed medication for hypertension among black women: New Orleans 1986-86 -- Working with culture of biomedicine -- Anthropology and the world of physicians -- Teaching framework for cross-cultural health care -- Confronting culture in medicine's culture of no culture -- Anthropology in the clinic: the problem of cultural competency and how to fix it -- Ethnicity and health care -- Case of lead poisoning from folk remedies in Mexican American communities -- Why does Juan García have a drinking problem? The perspective of critical medical anthropology -- Understanding masculinity and the challenges of managing type-2 diabetes among African-American men -- Stigma and coping with chronic illness -- Coping with stigma: lifelong adaptation of deaf people -- Genital herpes: an ethnographic inquiry into being discreditable in American society -- Stigma in the time of influenza: social and institutional responses to pandemic emergencies -- AIDS as human suffering -- Gender and health -- Medical metaphors of women's bodies: menstruation and menopause -- Turn-taking in doctor-patient dialogues -- Culture, scarcity, and maternal thinking: maternal detachment and infant survival in a Brazilian shantytown -- Culture and nutrition: fat and thin -- Biocultural approach in nutritional anthropology: case studies of malnutrition in Mali -- Anthropological perspective on obesity -- Global health issues and programs -- Saving the children for the tobacco industry -- Ethnomedicine and oral rehydration therapy: a case study of ethnomedical investigation and program planning -- New challenges to the AIDS prevention paradigm | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Understanding medical anthropology: biosocial and cultural approaches -- Medical anthropology: an introduction to the fields -- Biosocial approaches -- Evolution, health, and medicine -- Stone agers in the fast lane: chronic degenerative diseases in evolutionary perspective -- How is Darwinian medicine useful? -- Human biological variation -- Tall and short of it -- Why genes don't count (for racial differences in health) -- Skin deep -- Bioarchaeology and the history of health -- Health and disease in prehistoric populations in transition -- Determinants of health -- Cultural approaches -- Cultural and political ecologies of disease -- Cultural adapatations to endemic malaria in Sardinia -- Social inequalities and emerging infectious diseases -- Why is it easier to get drugs than drug treatment in the United States? -- Ethnomedicine and healers -- Disease etiologies in non-western medical systems -- Transcendental medication --^ | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Understanding medical anthropology: biosocial and cultural approaches -- Medical anthropology: an introduction to the fields -- Biosocial approaches -- Evolution, health, and medicine -- Stone agers in the fast lane: chronic degenerative diseases in evolutionary perspective -- How is Darwinian medicine useful? -- Human biological variation -- Tall and short of it -- Why genes don't count (for racial differences in health) -- Skin deep -- Bioarchaeology and the history of health -- Health and disease in prehistoric populations in transition -- Determinants of health -- Cultural approaches -- Cultural and political ecologies of disease -- Cultural adaptations to endemic malaria in Sardinia -- Social inequalities and emerging infectious diseases -- Why is it easier to get drugs than drug treatment in the United States? -- Ethnomedicine and healers -- Disease etiologies in non-western medical systems -- Transcendental medication -- Doctor's white coat: the image of the physician in modern America -- Belief and healing -- Sorcerer and his magic -- Doctors and patients: the role of clinicians in the placebo effect -- Nocebo phenomenon: concept, evidence, and implications for public health -- Meaning and experience of illness -- Learning to be a leper: a case study in the social construction of illness -- Strategic suffering: illness narratives as social empowerment among Mexican cancer patients -- Damaged self -- Biomedicine, technology, and the body -- Accounting for amniocentesis -- Religion and reproductive technologies -- Rethinking the biological clock: eleventh-hour moms, miracle moms, and meanings of age-related infertility -- Inventing a new death and making it believable -- Culture, illness, and mental health -- Do psychiatric disorders differ in different cultures? -- Epidemiology of a folk illness: Susto in Hispanic America -- Seeking to escape the suffering of existence: internet suicide in Japan -- Applying medical anthropology -- Case studies in explanatory models -- Ethnomedical beliefs and patient adherence to a treatment regimen: a St. Lucian example -- Health beliefs and compliance with prescribed medication for hypertension among black women: New Orleans 1986-86 -- Working with culture of biomedicine -- Anthropology and the world of physicians -- Teaching framework for cross-cultural health care -- Confronting culture in medicine's culture of no culture -- Anthropology in the clinic: the problem of cultural competency and how to fix it -- Ethnicity and health care -- Case of lead poisoning from folk remedies in Mexican American communities -- Why does Juan García have a drinking problem? The perspective of critical medical anthropology -- Understanding masculinity and the challenges of managing type-2 diabetes among African-American men -- Stigma and coping with chronic illness -- Coping with stigma: lifelong adaptation of deaf people -- Genital herpes: an ethnographic inquiry into being discreditable in American society -- Stigma in the time of influenza: social and institutional responses to pandemic emergencies -- AIDS as human suffering -- Gender and health -- Medical metaphors of women's bodies: menstruation and menopause -- Turn-taking in doctor-patient dialogues -- Culture, scarcity, and maternal thinking: maternal detachment and infant survival in a Brazilian shantytown -- Culture and nutrition: fat and thin -- Biocultural approach in nutritional anthropology: case studies of malnutrition in Mali -- Anthropological perspective on obesity -- Global health issues and programs -- Saving the children for the tobacco industry -- Ethnomedicine and oral rehydration therapy: a case study of ethnomedical investigation and program planning -- New challenges to the AIDS prevention paradigm | |
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