ISBN:
9781440802553
,
9781440829154
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 521 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
Edition:
Third edition
Keywords:
Anthropology
;
Medical anthropology
;
Ethnomedizin
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Medical anthropology : central concepts and developmentTheoretical perspectives in medical anthropology -- Health and the environment : from foraging societies to the capitalist world system -- The impact of climate change, environmental crises, and disasters on health -- Poverty, injustice, and health in the world system -- Reproduction, biotechnologies, and inequality -- Violence and war -- Legal and illegal drugs : experience, behavior, and society -- AIDS and infectious diseases -- Syndemics and the biosocial nature of health -- Medical systems in indigenou and precapitalist and early capitalist state societies -- Biomedical hegemony in the context of medical pluralism -- Health praxis and the struggle for a healthy, socially just, and environmentally sustainable world system.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [435]-497) and index
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