Introducing Medical Anthropology - A Discipline in Action

Introducing Medical Anthropology, Third Edition, is intended for use in the medical anthropology course taught primarily at four year universities.

List of contents

Preface
About the Authors
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Anthropology of Health
Chapter 2 What Health Anthropologists Do
Chapter 3 Understanding Health, Illness, and Disease
Chapter 4 Health Disparity, Health Inequality
Chapter 5 Health and the Environment: Toward a Healthier World
Chapter 6 Ethnomedicine: The Worlds of Treatment and Healing
Chapter 7 Plural Medical Systems: Complexity, Complementarity and Conflict
Chapter 8 The Biopolitics of Life: Biotechnology, Biocapital, and Bioethics
Chapter 9: Strategies and Visions for a Healthier World
Source Material for Students
Glossary
References

Index

About the author

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.

Summary

Introducing Medical Anthropology, Third Edition, is intended for use in the medical anthropology course taught primarily at four year universities.

Foreword

An extraordinary and moving story of two brothers from the American South who were stolen away to become circus freaks.

Additional text

As compelling as Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks . . . both are absolutely stunning examples of narrative nonfiction at its best . . . Certain to be among the most memorable books of the year.

Product details

• Authors: Hans Baer, Baer Hans, Debbi Long, Long Debbi, Alex Pavlotski, Elyse Ona Singer, Merrill Singer, Merrill Baer Singer, Singer Merrill
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781538106464
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0646-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); HEALTH & FITNESS / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Popular medicine & health, Popular medicine and health