Introducing Medical Anthropology - A Discipline in Action

Informationen zum Autor Merrill Singer is a professor of anthropology and senior research scientist at the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention at the University of Connecticut. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 24 books, including Killer Commodities: Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm and The War Machine and Global Health. Klappentext Introducing Medical Anthropology, Third Edition, is intended for use in the medical anthropology course taught primarily at four year universities. Zusammenfassung Introducing Medical Anthropology! Third Edition! is intended for use in the medical anthropology course taught primarily at four year universities. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAbout the AuthorsChapter 1 Introduction to the Anthropology of HealthChapter 2 What Health Anthropologists DoChapter 3 Understanding Health, Illness, and DiseaseChapter 4 Health Disparity, Health Inequality Chapter 5 Health and the Environment: Toward a Healthier World Chapter 6 Ethnomedicine: The Worlds of Treatment and HealingChapter 7 Plural Medical Systems: Complexity, Complementarity and ConflictChapter 8 The Biopolitics of Life: Biotechnology, Biocapital, and BioethicsChapter 9: Strategies and Visions for a Healthier WorldSource Material for StudentsGlossaryReferencesIndex

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• Authors: Hans Baer, Baer Hans, Debbi Long, Long Debbi, Alex Pavlotski, Elyse Ona Singer, Merrill Singer, Merrill Baer Singer, Merrill/ Baer Singer, Singer Merrill
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781538106457
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0645-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); HEALTH & FITNESS / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Popular medicine & health, Popular medicine and health