Mari Womack

The Anthropology of Health and Healing

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Produktbeschreibung

The Anthropology of Health and Healing is the first text to take an integrative approach to the discipline of medical anthropology. In this book, Mari Womack champions a practice of medicine that includes the maintenance of health as well as treatment of illness, emphasizing the importance of lifestyle and the life cycle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 915g
• ISBN-13: 9780759110434
• ISBN-10: 0759110433
• Artikelnr.: 26552834

Autorenporträt

Mari Womack is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and adjunct professor of anthropology at El Camino College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface: A Tribute to My Teachers Chapter 2 Introduction: The
Anthropology of Health and Healing Part 3 Part I. The Psychobiology of
Health and Healing Chapter 4 Chapter 1. Models of the Body, the Self, and
the Human Experience Chapter 5 Chapter 2. Constructing Gender: The Body in
Social Context Chapter 6 Chapter 3. The Biology of Psychology and the
Psychology of Biology Chapter 7 Chapter 4. Metaphor, Labeling Theory, and
the Placebo Effect Part 8 Part II. Maintaining Health and Healing the Whole
Person Chapter 9 Chapter 5. The Human Life Cycle: Coming of Age Chapter 10
Chapter 6. The Human Life Cycle: The Reproductive Years Chapter 11 Chapter
7. The Human Life Cycle: Growing Old and Growing Good Chapter 12 Chapter 8.
Lifestyle and Health Part 13 Part III. Models of Diagnosis and Treatment
Chapter 14 Chapter 9. Biomedicine and the Scientific Approach Chapter 15
Chapter 10. Restoring the Balance: Asian Models of Health and Healing
Chapter 16 Chapter 11. Calling on the Spirits: Shamans, Sorcerers, and
Mediums Chapter 17 Chapter 12. The Emerging Field of Integrative Medicine
Part 18 Part IV. Contemporary Issues in Health and Healing Chapter 19
Chapter 13. The Social Context of Epidemics Chapter 20 Chapter 14.
Medicines, Herbs, and Dietary Supplements Chapter 21 Chapter 15. Public
Policy and Health-Care Delivery Systems Chapter 22 Notes Chapter 23
Glossary Chapter 24 References Chapter 25 Index