Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, provides students with a first look at the growing field of medical and health anthropology. The narrative is guided by three unifying themes. First, health-oriented anthropologists are involved in the process of helping to change the world around them through their work in applied projects, policy initiatives, and advocacy. Second, the authors present the fundamental importance of culture and social relationships in health and illness by demonstrating that illness and disease involve complex biosocial processes and that resolving them…mehr
Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, provides students with a first look at the growing field of medical and health anthropology. The narrative is guided by three unifying themes. First, health-oriented anthropologists are involved in the process of helping to change the world around them through their work in applied projects, policy initiatives, and advocacy. Second, the authors present the fundamental importance of culture and social relationships in health and illness by demonstrating that illness and disease involve complex biosocial processes and that resolving them requires attention to a range of factors beyond biology. Third, through an examination of the issue of health inequality, this book underlines the need for an analysis that moves beyond cultural or even ecological models of health toward a comprehensive biosocial approach. Such an approach integrates biological, cultural, and social factors in building unified theoretical understandings of the origin of ill health, while contributing to the building of effective and equitable national health-care systems.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
By Merrill Singer; Hans A. Baer; Debbi Long and Alex Pavlotski
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Preface Chapter 1: Introduction to the Anthropology of Health Introduction and Overview Encountering Health Anthropology Three Case Studies in Applied Health Anthropology Practical and Theoretical Contributions of Health Anthropology Defining Health Anthropology History of Health Anthropology Health Anthropology Theories Chapter 2: What Health Anthropologists Do and How They Do It Introduction and Overview Three Settings, Three Case Studies, Three Health Anthropologists A Case Study What Health Anthropologists Study Conducting Research: A Peculiarly Anthropological Approach Research Methods: The Anthropological Approach to Knowledge Generation Health Anthropology in Use The Health Anthropology Crystal Ball Chapter 3: Understanding Health, Illness, and Disease Introduction and Overview Conceptions of Health and Illness Sufferer Experience Illness Narratives Embodied Health Experience Healer versus Sufferer Conception of Disease Chapter 4: Human Evolution and Health Introduction and Overview The Roots of Evolutionary Health Linkages, Trade-Offs, and Thrifty Genes Migration and the Genetics of Health The Out-of-Africa Intrusion Living in the Clouds Epigenetics Socioeconomic Factors The Genetics of Sexuality Conclusion Chapter 5: Ethnomedicine: The Worlds of Treatment and Healing Introduction and Overview Approaching Ethnomedicine Indigenous and Folk Medicine Systems An Evolutionary Model of Disease Theories and Healing Systems Case Study: Are the Therapeutic Aspects of Religion Something That Partially Address Refugee Health Problems? Biomedicine as the Predominant Ethnomedicine in Modern Societies Chapter 6: 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 Bolivia A Case Study of Medical Pluralism in an Urban Setting of a Developing Society: A View from Central Java A Case Study of Medical Pluralism in a Developed Society: The Australian Dominative Medical System Typologies of Plural Medical Systems New Directions in the Study of Medical Pluralism Chapter 7: 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 Biology of Poverty Insuring Disease Culturally Competent Care Health and Social Disparities Cross-Culturally Addressing Health Disparities Pushing Back on Health Disparities "Race" and Health Disparity Chapter 8: 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 The Political Ecology of Cancer The Impact of Private Motor Vehicles on Health The Impact of Airplanes on Health The Political Ecology of AIDS: Assessing a Contemporary Syndemic Chapter 9: The Biopolitics of Life: Biotechnology, Biocapital, and Bioethics Introduction and Overview Critical Health Anthropology and Biotechnology Science, Nature, and Culture 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 Summary Chapter 10: Strategies and Visions for a Healthier World Introduction and Overview Global Capitalism Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Pathway for a Healthier World Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Pathway to Planetary Health How to Go from A to B Health Anthropology as an Action-Oriented Endeavor Source Material for Students Glossary References Index About the Authors
Preface Chapter 1: Introduction to the Anthropology of Health Introduction and Overview Encountering Health Anthropology Three Case Studies in Applied Health Anthropology Practical and Theoretical Contributions of Health Anthropology Defining Health Anthropology History of Health Anthropology Health Anthropology Theories Chapter 2: What Health Anthropologists Do and How They Do It Introduction and Overview Three Settings, Three Case Studies, Three Health Anthropologists A Case Study What Health Anthropologists Study Conducting Research: A Peculiarly Anthropological Approach Research Methods: The Anthropological Approach to Knowledge Generation Health Anthropology in Use The Health Anthropology Crystal Ball Chapter 3: Understanding Health, Illness, and Disease Introduction and Overview Conceptions of Health and Illness Sufferer Experience Illness Narratives Embodied Health Experience Healer versus Sufferer Conception of Disease Chapter 4: Human Evolution and Health Introduction and Overview The Roots of Evolutionary Health Linkages, Trade-Offs, and Thrifty Genes Migration and the Genetics of Health The Out-of-Africa Intrusion Living in the Clouds Epigenetics Socioeconomic Factors The Genetics of Sexuality Conclusion Chapter 5: Ethnomedicine: The Worlds of Treatment and Healing Introduction and Overview Approaching Ethnomedicine Indigenous and Folk Medicine Systems An Evolutionary Model of Disease Theories and Healing Systems Case Study: Are the Therapeutic Aspects of Religion Something That Partially Address Refugee Health Problems? Biomedicine as the Predominant Ethnomedicine in Modern Societies Chapter 6: 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 Bolivia A Case Study of Medical Pluralism in an Urban Setting of a Developing Society: A View from Central Java A Case Study of Medical Pluralism in a Developed Society: The Australian Dominative Medical System Typologies of Plural Medical Systems New Directions in the Study of Medical Pluralism Chapter 7: 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 Biology of Poverty Insuring Disease Culturally Competent Care Health and Social Disparities Cross-Culturally Addressing Health Disparities Pushing Back on Health Disparities "Race" and Health Disparity Chapter 8: 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 The Political Ecology of Cancer The Impact of Private Motor Vehicles on Health The Impact of Airplanes on Health The Political Ecology of AIDS: Assessing a Contemporary Syndemic Chapter 9: The Biopolitics of Life: Biotechnology, Biocapital, and Bioethics Introduction and Overview Critical Health Anthropology and Biotechnology Science, Nature, and Culture 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 Summary Chapter 10: Strategies and Visions for a Healthier World Introduction and Overview Global Capitalism Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Pathway for a Healthier World Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Pathway to Planetary Health How to Go from A to B Health Anthropology as an Action-Oriented Endeavor Source Material for Students Glossary References Index About the Authors
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