Introducing Medical Anthropology - A Discipline in Action

Informationen zum Autor Merrill Singer is a medical anthropologist at the Center for Health! Intervention and Prevention! University of Connecticut. He is the author or co-author of ten books! including Unhealthy Health Policy and Medical Anthropology and the World System. Hans Baer is a lecturer in the School of Social and Environmental Enquiry! and the Centre of Health and Society at the University of Melbourne. His books include Encounters with Biomedicine: Case Studies in Medical Anthropology! Toward an Integrative Medicine! and Medical Anthropology and the World System. Klappentext A new text in the growing field of medical anthropology. Zusammenfassung A new text in the growing field of medical anthropology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 1. Why Have a Medical Anthropology? Chapter 2 2. What Medical Anthropologists Do Chapter 3 3. What Is Health: Experiencing Illness! Knowing Disease Chapter 4 4. Ethnomedicines: The Worlds of Treatment and Healing Chapter 5 5. Plural Medical Systems in the Contemporary World: Complexity! Complementarity! and Conflict Chapter 6 6. Health Disparity! Health Inequity Chapter 7 7. Health and the Environment:Toward a Healthier World Chapter 8 8. Source Material For Students Chapter 9 9. References Chapter 10 10. Index

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• Autori: Hans Baer, Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, Merrill/ Baer Singer
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2007
• EAN: 9780759110571
• ISBN: 978-0-7591-1057-1
• Pagine: 246
• Dimensioni: 146 mm x 254 mm x 13 mm
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Salute; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Altro