Medical Anthropology And The World System

Author : Hans A. Baer,Merrill Singer,Ida Susser
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Medical anthropology
ISBN : 9798400684296

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Medical Anthropology and the World System by Hans A. Baer,Merrill Singer,Ida Susser Pdf

"Medical anthropology is one of the youngest and most dynamic of anthropology's various subdisciplines. Critical medical anthropology has evolved into one of the major perspectives through which faculty and students study the field. It examines health-related issues in precapitalist indigenous and state societies, capitalist societies, and postrevolutionary of socialist-oriented societies. While critical medical anthropology draws heavily on neo-Marxian, critical, and world systems theoretical perspectives, it attempts to incorporate the theoretical contributions of other systems in medical anthropology, including biocultural or medical ecology, ethnomedical approaches, cultural constructivism, poststructuralism, and postmodernism. This is the first textbook to incorporate this perspective. The first part of the book is a discussion of the central concepts in, and the development and scope of, medical anthropology, as well as the critical perspective employed. The second part explores health and the environment, as well as the social origins of specific health problems. A third part highlights the diversity of medical systems in different societies, and a fourth part argues for a merger of theory and social action"--Publisher's description.

Author : Hans A. Baer,Merrill Singer,Ida Susser
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Medical anthropology
ISBN : UOM:49015002453786

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Medical Anthropology and the World System by Hans A. Baer,Merrill Singer,Ida Susser Pdf

A critical examination of the field and study of medical anthropology in the world system.

Author : Hans A. Baer,Merrill Singer,Ida Susser
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 0897898451

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Medical Anthropology and the World System by Hans A. Baer,Merrill Singer,Ida Susser Pdf

Medical anthropology is one of the youngest and most dynamic of the various subdisciplines within anthropology. It examines health related issues in pre-capitalist, indigenous and state societies, capitalist societies and post-revolutionary cultures.

Author : Hans A. Baer,Merrill Singer,Ida Susser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781440802560

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Medical Anthropology and the World System by Hans A. Baer,Merrill Singer,Ida Susser Pdf

Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related behavior, and health care in light of social and health inequality as well as structural violence. It also examines how the exercise of power in the health arena and in society overall impacts human health and well-being. Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives, Third Edition includes updated and expanded information on medical anthropology, resulting in an even more comprehensive resource for undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers worldwide. As in the previous versions of this text, the authors provide insights from the perspective of critical medical anthropology, a well-established theoretical viewpoint from which faculty, researchers, and students study medical anthropology. It addresses the nature and scope of medical anthropology; the biosocial and political ecological origins of disease, health inequities, and social suffering; and the nature of medical systems in indigenous and pre-capitalist state societies and modern societies. The third edition also includes new material on the relationship between climate change and health. Finally, this textbook explores health praxis and the struggle for a healthy world.

Author : Hans A. Baer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1037621208

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Medical Anthropology and the World System by Hans A. Baer Pdf

Author : Peter J. Brown,Svea Closser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1357 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315416151

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Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology by Peter J. Brown,Svea Closser Pdf

The editors of the third edition of the seminal textbook Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology bring it completely up to date for both instructors and students. The collection of 49 readings (17 of them new to this edition) offers extensive background description and exposes students to the breadth of theoretical, methodological, and practical perspectives and issues in the field of medical anthropology. The text provides specific examples and case studies of research as it is applied to a range of health settings: from cross-cultural clinical encounters to cultural analysis of new biomedical technologies and the implementation of programs in global health settings. The new edition features: • a major revision that eliminates many older readings in favor of more fresh, relevant selections; • a new section on structural violence that looks at the impact of poverty and other forms of social marginalization on health; • an updated and expanded section on “Conceptual Tools,” including new research and ideas that are currently driving the field of medical anthropology forward (such as epigenetics and syndemics); • new chapters on climate change, Ebola, PTSD among Iraq/Afghanistan veterans, eating disorders, and autism, among others; • recent articles from Margaret Mead Award winners Sera Young, Seth Holmes, and Erin Finley, along with new articles by such established medical anthropologists as Paul Farmer and Merrill Singer.

Author : Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1103 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306477546

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Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology by Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember Pdf

Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and disease are managed in different cultures, the more we can recognize what is "culture bound" in our own medical belief and practice. The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology is unique because it is the first reference work to describe the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures and to provide an overview of important topics in medical anthropology. No other single reference work comes close to marching the depth and breadth of information on the varying cultural background of health and illness around the world. More than 100 experts - anthropologists and other social scientists - have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures from around the world.

Author : Thomas Malcolm Johnson,Carolyn F. Sargent
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004082074

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Medical Anthropology by Thomas Malcolm Johnson,Carolyn F. Sargent Pdf

Author : Merrill Singer,Hans Baer,Debbi Long,Alex Pavlotski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538106471

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Introducing Medical Anthropology by Merrill Singer,Hans Baer,Debbi Long,Alex Pavlotski Pdf

Introducing Medical Anthropology, Third Edition, is intended for use in the medical anthropology course taught primarily at four year universities.

Author : Jennie Gamlin,Sahra Gibbon,Paola M. Sesia,Lina Berrio
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787355828

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Critical Medical Anthropology by Jennie Gamlin,Sahra Gibbon,Paola M. Sesia,Lina Berrio Pdf

Critical Medical Anthropology presents inspiring work from scholars doing and engaging with ethnographic research in or from Latin America, addressing themes that are central to contemporary Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA). This includes issues of inequality, embodiment of history, indigeneity, non-communicable diseases, gendered violence, migration, substance abuse, reproductive politics and judicialisation, as these relate to health. The collection of ethnographically informed research, including original theoretical contributions, reconsiders the broader relevance of CMA perspectives for addressing current global healthcare challenges from and of Latin America. It includes work spanning four countries in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru) as well as the trans-migratory contexts they connect and are defined by. By drawing on diverse social practices, it addresses challenges of central relevance to medical anthropology and global health, including reproduction and maternal health, sex work, rare and chronic diseases, the pharmaceutical industry and questions of agency, political economy, identity, ethnicity, and human rights.

Author : Merrill Singer,Pamela I. Erickson,César E. Abadía-Barrero
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119718901

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A Companion to Medical Anthropology by Merrill Singer,Pamela I. Erickson,César E. Abadía-Barrero Pdf

The fully revised new edition of the defining reference work in the field of medical anthropology A Companion to Medical Anthropology, Second Edition provides the most complete account of the key issues and debates in this dynamic, rapidly growing field. Bringing together contributions by leading international authorities in medical anthropology, this comprehensive reference work presents critical assessments and interpretations of a wide range of topical themes, including global and environmental health, political violence and war, poverty, malnutrition, substance abuse, reproductive health, and infectious diseases. Throughout the text, readers explore the global, historical, and political factors that continue to influence how health and illness are experienced and understood. The second edition is fully updated to reflect current controversies and significant new developments in the anthropology of health and related fields. More than twenty new and revised articles address research areas including war and health, illicit drug abuse, climate change and health, colonialism and modern biomedicine, activist-led research, syndemics, ethnomedicines, biocommunicability, COVID-19, and many others. Highlighting the impact medical anthropologists have on global health care policy and practice, A Companion to Medical Anthropology, Second Edition: Features specially commissioned articles by medical anthropologists working in communities worldwide Discusses future trends and emerging research areas in the field Describes biocultural approaches to health and illness and research design and methods in applied medical anthropology Addresses topics including chronic diseases, rising levels of inequality, war and health, migration and health, nutritional health, self-medication, and end of life care Part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology series, A Companion to Medical Anthropology, Second Edition, remains an indispensable resource for medical anthropologists, as well as an excellent textbook for courses in medical anthropology, ethnomedicine, global health care, and medical policy.

Author : Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Cross-cultural studies
ISBN : OCLC:874751308

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Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology by Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember Pdf

The encyclopedia is organized into two main sections: topics and cultures. The topics section covers general topics relating to medical anthropology such as medical systems; political, economic and social issues; sexuality, reproduction and the life cycle; and health conditions and diseases. The cultures section covers over 50 cultures from around the world and describes their health practices in detail, following a standard format to facilitate comparisons. -- Back cover

Author : Carol Ruchlis Ember,Melvin Ember
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Diseases
ISBN : OCLC:249700557

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Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology by Carol Ruchlis Ember,Melvin Ember Pdf

The encyclopedia is organized into two main sections: topics and cultures. The topics section covers general topics relating to medical anthropology such as medical systems; political, economic and social issues; sexuality, reproduction and the life cycle; and health conditions and diseases. The cultures section covers over 50 cultures from around the world and describes their health practices in detail, following a standard format to facilitate comparisons. -- Back cover

Author : Cecil G. Helman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351918824

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Medical Anthropology by Cecil G. Helman Pdf

This important volume includes key papers which outline the history, concepts, research findings and recent controversies in medical anthropology - the cross-cultural study of health, illness and medical care. Among the topics covered are transcultural psychiatry, food and nutrition, anthropology of the body, alcohol and drug use, traditional healers, childbirth and bereavement and the applications of medical anthropology to international health issues, such as the HIV/AIDS pandemic, malaria prevention and family planning. It is a valuable resource not only for scholars and students of medical anthropology but also for health professionals working in multi-cultural settings, or in international medical aid programmes.

Author : Byron J. Good,Michael M. J. Fischer,Sarah S. Willen,Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405183154

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A Reader in Medical Anthropology by Byron J. Good,Michael M. J. Fischer,Sarah S. Willen,Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good Pdf

A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as well as related science and technology studies. The editors’ comprehensive introductions evaluate the historical lineages of these approaches and their value in addressing critical problems associated with contemporary forms of illness experience and health care. Presents a key selection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles in medical anthropology Provides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology, medical sociology, and science and technology studies Critically reviews the contribution of medical anthropology to a new global health movement that is reshaping international health agendas