Medical Anthropology In Ecological Perspective

Author : Ann McElroy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429973109

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Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective by Ann McElroy Pdf

Global environmental change and recent worldwide infectious-disease outbreaks make the ecological perspective of medical anthropology more important a field of study than ever. In this premier teaching text, authors Ann McElroy and Patricia K. Townsend integrate biocultural, environmental, and evolutionary approaches to the study of human health, providing a complete and authoritative ecological perspective that is essential for interpreting medical anthropology. Research by biological anthropologists, archaeologists, and paleopathologists illuminates the history and prehistory of disease, along with coverage of contemporary health issues, both local and global. This sixth edition is thoroughly revised and updated, with expanded discussion on the interaction of environment and infectious disease; new material on climate change, globalization, and the effects of war on physical and mental health; and an entirely new chapter on ethics in community health and medical anthropology. Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective captures the essentials of the discipline and covers its ever-changing topics, trends, and developments in an engaging, accessible way.

Author : Ann McElroy,Patricia K Townsend
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106016133487

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Medical Anthropology In Ecological Perspective by Ann McElroy,Patricia K Townsend Pdf

The latest edition of the premier text in medical anthropology.

Author : Ann McElroy,Patricia K Townsend
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106016332980

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Medical Anthropology In Ecological Perspective by Ann McElroy,Patricia K Townsend Pdf

The third edition of this classic text in medical anthropology has been revised to reflect new developments in theory and research. In theory, it addresses new thinking about political ecology and critiques older theoretical approaches. AIDS is a prominent topic in this new edition, as are other timely issues such as disability, medical pluralism, and health care seeking behavior. The authors have also expanded the number of health profiles to include migrant worker health, famine in the Horn of Africa, and paleopathology in the southwestern United States.

Author : Ann McElroy,Patricia K Townsend
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040834686

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Medical Anthropology In Ecological Perspective by Ann McElroy,Patricia K Townsend Pdf

The 25th-anniversary edition of the premier text in medical anthropology.

Author : Ann McElroy,Patricia K Townsend
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : UIUC:30112086930580

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Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective by Ann McElroy,Patricia K Townsend Pdf

Integrating biocultural, environmental, and evolutionary approaches to the study of human health, this premier teaching text for medical anthropology has been updated to reflect the latest developments in the field.

Author : Merrill Singer,Pamela I. Erickson,César E. Abadía-Barrero
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Merrill Singer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118786925

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A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health by Merrill Singer Pdf

A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world. Features the latest ethnographic research from around the world related to the multiple impacts of the environment on health and of societies on their environments Includes contributions from international medical anthropologists, conservationists, environmental experts, public health professionals, health clinicians, and other social scientists Analyzes the conditions of cultural and social transformation that accompany environmental and ecological impacts in all areas of the world Offers critical perspectives on theoretical and methodological advancements in the anthropology of environmental health, along with future directions in the field

Author : Merrill Singer,Hans A. Baer
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759120907

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Introducing Medical Anthropology by Merrill Singer,Hans A. Baer Pdf

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.

Author : Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1103 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Hans A. Baer,Merrill Singer,Ida Susser
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Michael Winkelman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780470462614

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Culture and Health by Michael Winkelman Pdf

Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address the challenges of cross-cultural medicine through interdisciplinary cultural-ecological models and personal and institutional developmental approaches to cross-cultural adaptation and competency. The book addresses the perspectives of clinically applied anthropology, trans-cultural psychiatry and the medical ecology, critical medical anthropology and symbolic paradigms as frameworks for enhanced comprehension of health and the medical encounter. Includes cultural case studies, applied vignettes, and self-assessments.

Author : Byron J. Good
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Medical
ISBN : 052142576X

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Medicine, Rationality and Experience by Byron J. Good Pdf

Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of 'belief' and subtly discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for understanding illness and healing across cultures, one that neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his research in several American and Middle Eastern medical settings, in this 1993 book Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and experience. He explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily experience in shaping and responding to human suffering and argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical practice as in other forms of healing.

Author : Michael H. Logan,Edward E. Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015006463445

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Health and the Human Condition by Michael H. Logan,Edward E. Hunt Pdf

Author : Hans A. Baer,Merrill Singer,Ida Susser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : 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.