Pool, Robert, Ph.D., Wenzel Geissler

Medical Anthropology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an introduction to the basic concepts, approaches and theories used, and shows how these contribute to understanding complex health related behaviour. Public health policies and interventions are more likely to be effective if the beliefs and behaviour of people are understood and taken into account.

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Produktdetails

• Understanding Public Health
• Verlag: Open University Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 169mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780335218509
• ISBN-10: 0335218504
• Artikelnr.: 21675552

Autorenporträt

Senior Lecturers in Social Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Overview of the book
Anthropology and culture
Anthropological perspectives
Approaches to medical anthropology
Medical systems and medical syncretism
Interpreting and explaining sickness
Situating sickness and health
The relationship between anthropology and biomedicine
Substances of power
Local and global medicines
Cultures, persons, bodies
Medical research
Health interventions as a field of social practice
Index