Introducing medical anthropology : a discipline in action
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Introducing medical anthropology : a discipline in action
AltaMira Press, c2012
2nd ed
- : pbk
Available at / 3 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-281) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This revised textbook provides students with a first exposure to the growing field of medical anthropology. The narrative is guided by unifying themes. First, medical anthropology is actively engaged in helping to address pressing health problems around the globe through research, intervention, and policy-related initiatives. Second, illness and disease cannot be fully understood or effectively addressed by treating them solely as biological in nature; rather, health problems involve complex biosocial processes and resolving them requires attention to range of factors including systems of belief, structures of social relationship, and environmental conditions. Third, through an examination of health inequalities on the one hand and environmental degradation and environment-related illness on the other, the book underlines the need for going beyond cultural or even ecological models of health toward a comprehensive medical anthropology. The authors show that a medical anthropology that integrates biological, cultural, and social factors to truly understand the origin of ill health will contribute to more effective and equitable health care systems.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Medical Anthropology
Chapter 2: What Medical Anthropologists Do
Chapter 3: Understanding Health, Illness, and Disease
Chapter 4: Ethnomedicine: In the Worlds of Treatment and Healing
Chapter 5: Medical Pluralism in the Contemporary World
Chapter 6: Health Disparity and Health Inequality
Chapter 7: Health and the Environment: Toward a Healthier World
Glossary
References
Resource Materials for Students
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"