| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to anthropology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Theories, Applications, and Methods -- 1. Medical Anthropology in Disciplinary Context: Definitional Struggles and Key Debates (or Answering the Cri Du Coeur) / Elisa J. Sobo -- 2. Critical Biocultural Approaches in Medical Anthropology / Alan H. Goodman -- 3. Applied Medical Anthropology: Praxis, Pragmatics, Politics, and Promises / Robert T. Trotter, II -- 4. Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology / Clarence C. Gravlee -- 5. Medical Anthropology and Public Policy / Merrill Eisenberg -- pt. II Contexts and Conditions -- 6. Culture and the Stress Process / William W. Dressler -- 7. Global Health / Kitty K. Corbett -- 8. Syndemics in Global Health / Melanie Rock. |
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9. The Ecology of Disease and Health / Patricia K. Townsend -- 10. The Medical Anthropology of Water / Cecilia Vindrola Padros -- 11. Political Violence, War and Medical Anthropology / Merrill Singer -- pt. III Health and Behavior -- 12. Humans in a World of Microbes: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease / Kenneth C. Maes -- 13. Sexuality, Medical Anthropology, and Public Health / Pamela I. Erickson -- 14. Situating Birth in the Anthropology of Reproduction / Lauren Gulbas -- 15. Nutrition and Health / Charlotte A. Noble -- 16. Anthropologies of Cancer and Risk, Uncertainty and Disruption / Lenore Manderson -- 17. Generation RX: Anthropological Research on Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Lifestyle Regulation, Self-Medication and Recreational Drug Use / Mark Nichter. |
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18. Anthropology and the Study of Illicit Drug Use / J. Bryan Page -- pt. IV Healthwork: Care, Treatment, and Communication -- 19. Ethnomedicine / Marsha B. Quinlan -- 20. Medical Pluralism: An Evolving and Contested Concept in Medical Anthropology / Hans A. Baer -- 21. Biotechnologies of Care / Ruth Fitzgerald -- 22. Social Interaction and Technology: Cultural Competency and the Universality of Good Manners / Craig Palmer -- 23. Biocommunicability / Charles L. Briggs -- 24. Anthropology at the End of Life / Ron Barrett -- pt. V The Road Ahead -- 25. Operationalizing a Right to Health: Theorizing a National Health System as a "Commons" / Beverly Bell -- 26. As the Future Explodes into the Present: Emergent Issues and the Tomorrow of Medical Anthropology / Pamela I. Erickson. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Medical anthropology.
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Anthropology, Physical.
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Social Medicine.
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| Added Author |
Singer, Merrill.
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Erickson, Pamela I. (Pamela Irene), 1951-
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Wiley InterScience (Online service)
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| Related To |
Print version: Companion to medical anthropology. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 9781405190022 (DLC) 2011001519 |
| ISBN |
9781444395303 (electronic bk.) |
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1444395300 (electronic bk.) |
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9781444350739 (electronic bk.) |
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1444350730 (electronic bk.) |
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9781444395280 (electronic bk.) |
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1444395289 (electronic bk.) |
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9781444395297 |
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1444395297 |
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9781405190022 (Cloth) |
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1405190027 (Cloth) |
| UPC # |
9786613408235 |
| OCLC # |
om6577987 |
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