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.

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Preface
About the Authors
1 INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF HEALTH
Introduction and Overview
Encountering Health Anthropology
Three Case Studies in Applied Health Anthropology
Coping with Cystic Fibrosis
The Bone Crusher
Pesticide Poisoning
Practical and Theoretical Contributions of Health Anthropology
Clarifying the Culture of Health and Illness
Health Inequality
Defining Health Anthropology
Culture and Biology
History of Health Anthropology
The Straits Expedition
W. H. R. Rivers and Beyond
Rudolf Virchow
Erwin Ackerknecht and William Caudill
The Postwar Period
Health Anthropology and National Development
The Discipline Is Born
The Relationship of Health Anthropology to Anthropology and to Other Health-Related Disciplines
Health Research and the Subfields of Anthropology
Health Anthropology and Epidemiology
Illness and Help-Seeking Behavior
Health Anthropology and Public Health
Health Anthropology and Bioethics
Health Anthropology Theories
Medical Ecology
Meaning-Centered Health Anthropology
Critical Health Anthropology
2 WHAT HEALTH ANTHROPOLOGISTS DO
Introduction and Overview
Three Settings, Three Case Studies, Three Health Anthropologists
Life and Death in Tanala
Studying Surgeons
Folk Illness in Haiti
A Case Study
Having Impact
What Health Anthropologists Study
A Diverse Discipline
Studying the Life Course
Conducting Research: A Peculiarly Anthropological Approach
Holistic, Field-Based Understanding
Ethnography
Complex Sociocultural Tapestries
Research Methods
Multimethod Research
Examining Lives
Focus Group Interviews
Considering Consensus
Doing Diaries
Quantitative Methods
Broader Collaboration
Health Anthropology in Use
Mobilizing Research Findings
The Health Anthropology Crystal Ball
3 UNDERSTANDING HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND DISEASE
Introduction and Overview
Conceptions of Health and Illness
Defining Terms
Differentiating Disease and Illness
Reconceptualizing Disease and Illness
Understanding Cure
Folk Understandings
Understandings of Disease Causation
Humanizing Biomedicine
Sufferer Experience
Experience and Cultural Symbols
Cultural Emotions
Social Suffering
Beyond Social Suffering
Disability and Chronic Illness
The Patient in the Body
The Cultural Construction of Disability
Stigmatization
Human Rights and Health
Illness Narratives
The Social Uses of Narration
Analyzing Narrative
Embodied Health Experience
Why Bodies?
Body Theory
Bodies in the Age of Immunology
Cyborg Bodies
Mindful Bodies
Engendered Bodies
Understanding Medicalization
Healer versus Sufferer Conception of Disease
The Two Sides of Compliance
Insider and Outsider Assessments of Health Status
One Word, Two Meanings
Diseased but Not Ill
Mismessaging
Analyzing Health Discourse
4 HEALTH DISPARITY, HEALTH INEQUALITY
Introduction and Overview
What Is Health Disparity?
Health Disparity in the United States
Gasping for Breath
Causes of Health Disparity: Lifestyle versus Social Inequality
Living Right
Structural Explanation
Biology of Poverty
Insuring Disease
Culturally Competent Care
Health and Social Disparities Cross-Culturally
Child and Maternal Health Disparities
Addressing Health Disparities
Addressing Health Disparities in the Community
Upstream Analyses of Health Disparities
Gender and Global Health
Focusing on Disparity in Diseases
Multidisciplinary Approaches
Studying Local Mediation of Global Health
Pushing Back on Health Disparities
"Race" and Health Disparity
Race and Racism
5 HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT: TOWARD A HEALTHIER WORLD
Introduction and Overview
Medical Ecology and Critical Health Anthropology on the Environment
Health and the Environment in the Past
Health and the Environment Today
Depletion of Natural Resources and Environmental Degradation
Capitalism and Climate Change
Infectious Diseases in a Globalizing World
The Impact of Climate Change on Health
Other Environmental Impacts on Health
Water and Globalization
The Political Ecology of Cancer
Cancer in the Community
Cancer and Industry
China's Cancer Villages
Anthropological Examinations of Cancer Treatment
Nuclear Reactors and Health
Unconventional Natural Gas Extraction and Health
The Impact of Private Motor Vehicles on Health
The Political Ecology of AIDS: Assessing a Contemporary Syndemic
6 ETHNOMEDICINE: THE WORLDS OF TREATMENT AND HEALING
Introduction and Overview
Approaching Ethnomedicine
Indigenous and Folk Medicine Systems
Ways of Healing
Typologies of Healing Systems
An Evolutionary Model of Disease Theories and Healing Systems
Health, Illness, and Medicine in Family-Level Foraging Societies
Health, Illness, and Medicine in Village-Level Societies
Health, Illness, and Medicine in Pastoralist Societies
Health, Illness, and Medicine in Chiefdom Societies
Folk Healers in Modern Societies
Case Study: Are the Therapeutic Aspects of Religion Something That Partially Address Refugee Health Problems?
Biomedicine as the Predominant Ethnomedicine in Modern Societies
Hospitals
Health Anthropology and the Pharmaceutical Industry
7 PLURAL MEDICAL SYSTEMS: COMPLEXITY, COMPLEMENTARITY, AND CONFLICT
Introduction and Overview
A Case Study of Medical Pluralism in a Rural Area in a Developing Society: The Altiplano of Bolivia183
Themes
Medical Subsystems
Status of Health Care in Bolivia in the Pre-Revolutionary Era
Social and Health Conditions in Bolivia after the Election of Indigenous President Evo Morales
A Case Study of Medical Pluralism in an Urban Setting of a Developing Society: A View from Central Java
Medical Subsystems
A Case Study of Medical Pluralism in a Developed Society: The Australian Dominative Medical System
Medical Subsystems
Typologies of Plural Medical Systems
Healing and History
Patients of CAM
CAM and Class
New Directions in the Study of Medical Pluralism
Medical Syncretism
Medical Diversity
Medicoscapes
The Globalization of Traditional Medicine and CAM
8 THE BIOPOLITICS OF LIFE: BIOTECHNOLOGY, BIOCAPITAL, AND BIOETHICS
Introduction and Overview
Critical Health Anthropology and Biotechnology
Science, Nature, and Culture
Biocapital: Bodies of Profit
Reproductive Technologies
Divisible Bodies
Bringing the Lab into the Field: Anthropology and the Neurosciences
Molecular Biotechnologies: Tiny Pieces, Giant Infrastructures
The Story of hGH-Growing up Growth Hormone
The Culture of PCR
Visualization Technologies
When Technologies Combine
Ancestry, Families, and Genetics: Biotechnology and Belonging
9 STRATEGIES AND VISIONS FOR A HEALTHIER WORLD
Introduction and Overview
Global Capitalism
Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Pathway for a Healthier World
Health Anthropology as an Action-Oriented Endeavor
Source Material for Students
Glossary
References
Index

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Merrill Singer is professor emeritus in the Departments of Anthropology and Community Medicine at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Singer has published 290 scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, and has authored, co-authored or edited thirty-three books. His research and writing have addressed syndemics, HIV/AIDS and STDs in highly vulnerable and disadvantaged populations, illicit drug use and drinking behavior, infectious disease, community and structural violence, and the political ecology of health, including the health consequences of climate change. Dr. Singer has been awarded the Rudolph Virchow Professional Prize, the George Foster Memorial Award for Practicing Anthropology, both the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group’s Distinguished Service Award and its Clark Taylor Professional Paper Prize, the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America, and the Solon T. Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association. Debbi Long is an honorary senior lecturer in the Wollotuka Institute (Indigenous Studies) at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is a critical health anthropologist and a pioneer of hospital ethnography in Australia. She has undertaken health ethnography in Turkey, Eswatini, and in a variety of public hospital contexts in Australia, including maternity, spinal, intensive care and dialysis units. She has worked as a consultant in clinical organization and management on projects including quality improvement, patient safety, behaviour change, and in industrial relations contexts. Other research includes family violence education and workplace injury compensation analysis. She has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in anthropology departments, international development programs, medical, nursing and allied health programs and in Indigenous studies. including foundation and support programs. Debbi is a qualified Permaculture designer and educator, and recent projects involve a focus on food security, circular economies and sustainable building, heavily informed by traditional Indigenous knowledges. Alex Pavlotski works as a health anthropologist at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne. He specializes in using visual methods in research, co-design methodologies, ethnography, and anthropological teaching. Alex has worked in teaching and research with LaTrobe University, the University of Auckland, the University of Melbourne, and Monash University.

Riassunto

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

Prefazione

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

Testo aggiuntivo

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Hans Baer, Baer Hans, Debbi Long, Long Debbi, Alex Pavlotski, Elyse Ona Singer, Merrill Singer, Merrill Baer Singer, Singer Merrill
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781538106464
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0646-4
• Pagine: 320
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Etnologia; HEALTH & FITNESS / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Popular medicine & health, Popular medicine and health