Critical medical anthropology

Author(s)

• Singer, Merrill
• Baer, Hans A.

Bibliographic Information

Critical medical anthropology

Merrill Singer and Hans Baer

（Critical approaches in the health social sciences series / series editor Ray H. Elling）

CRC Press, 2018, c1995

• : pbk

Note

"First published 1995 by Baywood Publishing Company, Inc."--T.p. verso

"First issued in paperback 2018"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the last ten years. Standing as an opposition approach to conventional medical anthropology, critical medical anthropology has emphasized the importance of political and economy forces, including the exercise of power, in shaping health, disease, illness experience, and health care.

Table of Contents

SECTION A: Orientation Introduction Medical Anthropology and its Transformation The Critical Gaze Postmodernism Medical Anthropology: A Critique SECTION B: The Macro-Social Level Health-Related Issues in Socialist-Oriented Societies: Ideals, Contradictions, and Realities Studying Up: The Political Economy of Nuclear Regulation SECTION C: The Intermediate-Social Level The American Dominative Medical System as a Reflection of Social Relations in the Larger Society AIDS and the Health Crisis of the U.S. Urban Poor The Drive for Professionalization in British Osteopathy SECTION D: The Micro-Social Level Medical Hegemony, Biomedical Magic, and Folk Medicine: Reproductive Illness among Haitian Women Prophets and Advisors in African-American Spiritual Churches: Therapy, Palliative, or Opiate? SECTION E: The Individual Level Confronting Juan GarcA a's Drinking Problem: The Demedicalization of Alcoholism Cure, Care and Control: Agency and the Structure in the Clinical Encounter SECTION F: Directions How Critical Can Clinical Anthropology Be? Critical Praxis in Medical Anthropology Topic Index Name Index

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Details

• NCID: BB26932365
• ISBN:
  • 9780415783767
• LCCN: 9439810
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boca Raton ; London
• Pages/Volumes: x, 406 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 306.461
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Medical anthropology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA37076116