ISBN:
9780205693511
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (176 p)
Edition:
3rd ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Exploring Medical Anthropology
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 What's So Cultural about Disease?""; ""Culture in Medicine""; ""Disease in Other Cultures and Times""; ""The Impact of Culture on Contemporary Biomedicine""; ""Development of Medical Anthropology""; ""Medicine as a Social Process: William H. R. Rivers""; ""Functional Views of Medicine: Erwin Ackerknecht""; ""The Applied Roots of Medical Anthropology""; ""Medical Anthropology Today""; ""Summary: Placing Medical Anthropology among the Social Sciences of Medicine""; ""Suggested Readings""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Notes""""2 Anthropological Questions and Methods in the Study of Sickness and Healing""; ""Studying Shamans in Peru""; ""Research Questions""; ""Research Methods""; ""From Fieldwork to Analysis and Interpretation""; ""Studying Medicine in the United States""; ""Organ Transplantation as an Anthropological Subject""; ""Research Questions""; ""Research Methods""; ""Summary: The Anthropological Vision""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Notes""; ""3 Recognizing Biological, Social, and Cultural Interconnections: Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives on a Cholera Epidemic""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Thinking about Epidemics""""History and Biology of Cholera""; ""Epidemiological Accounts of Peru's Cholera Epidemic""; ""Evolution and the Ecological Framework""; ""Cholera and the Evolutionary Framework""; ""Medical Anthropology Embraces the Ecological/Evolutionary Model""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Notes""; ""4 Expanding the Vision of Medical Anthropology: Critical and Interpretive Views of the Cholera Epidemic""; ""Political Economy of Cholera""; ""Political-Economic versus Ecological/Evolutionary Perspectives""; ""Interpretive View of Cholera""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Taking a Broader, Inclusive Perspective""""Suggested Readings""; ""Notes""; ""5 The Global Petri Dish""; ""Transitions""; ""SARS: The First Global Epidemic of the Twenty-First Century""; ""One Health Ecology""; ""Challenges to the Ecological/Evolutionary Perspective""; ""Fluid Constructions""; ""Whose Political Economy? Challenges to the Critical Perspective""; ""Further Complications: The Threat of Bioterrorism""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Notes""; ""6 Healers and the Healing Professions""; ""Healing Roles: Organizing the Diversity""; ""Health Care Sectors""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Healers' Relationships between and within Health Care Sectors""""Authority of Healers""; ""Social and Cultural Dimensions: General Concepts""; ""Therapy Outcome and Healer Authority""; ""Authority in the Folk Health Sector: Position of Peruvian Curanderos""; ""Social Authority of Peruvian Curanderos""; ""Outcome of Curandero Therapy""; ""Cultural Authority of Curanderos""; ""Authority in the Professional Health Care Sector: Case of Biomedicine""; ""What Sets Biomedicine Apart?""; ""Social Authority of Biomedical Healers""; ""Outcome of Biomedical Healing""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cultural Authority of Biomedicine""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
