Merrill Singer, Hans Baer, Debbi Long

Introducing Medical Anthropology

A Discipline in Action

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Third Edition
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9781538106457
• ISBN-10: 1538106450
• Artikelnr.: 48745852

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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