دانلود کتاب A Companion to Medical Anthropology

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A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.

• Examines the key issues and current debates in medical anthropology
• Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s
• Written by leading international scholars in medical anthropology
• Covers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance abuse, infectious disease, and sexuality and reproductive health, and other topics

Content:
Chapter 1 Medical Anthropology in Disciplinary Context: Definitional Struggles and Key Debates (or Answering the Cri Du Coeur) (pages 7–28): Elisa J. Sobo
Chapter 2 Critical Biocultural Approaches in Medical Anthropology (pages 29–48): Tom Leatherman and Alan H. Goodman
Chapter 3 Applied Medical Anthropology: Praxis, Pragmatics, Politics, and Promises (pages 49–68): Robert T. Trotter
Chapter 4 Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology (pages 69–91): Clarence C. Gravlee
Chapter 5 Medical Anthropology and Public Policy (pages 93–116): Merrill Eisenberg
Chapter 6 Culture and the Stress Process (pages 117–134): William W. Dressler
Chapter 7 Global Health (pages 135–157): Craig R. Janes and Kitty K. Corbett
Chapter 8 Syndemics in Global Health (pages 159–179): Merrill Singer, D. Ann Herring, Judith Littleton and Melanie Rock
Chapter 9 The Ecology of Disease and Health (pages 181–195): Patricia K. Townsend
Chapter 10 The Medical Anthropology of Water (pages 197–218): Linda M. Whiteford and Cecilia Vindrola Padros
Chapter 11 Political Violence, War and Medical Anthropology (pages 219–249): Barbara Rylko?Bauer and Dr Merrill Singer
Chapter 12 Humans in a World of Microbes: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease (pages 251–270): Peter J. Brown, George J. Armelagos and Kenneth C. Maes
Chapter 13 Sexuality, Medical Anthropology, and Public Health (pages 271–287): Pamela I. Erickson
Chapter 14 Situating Birth in the Anthropology of Reproduction (pages 289–303): Carolyn Sargent and Lauren Gulbas
Chapter 15 Nutrition and Health (pages 305–321): David A. Himmelgreen, Nancy Romero Daza and Charlotte A. Noble
Chapter 16 Anthropologies of Cancer and Risk, Uncertainty and Disruption (pages 323–338): Lenore Manderson
Chapter 17 Generation RX: Anthropological Research on Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Lifestyle Regulation, Self?Medication and Recreational Drug Use (pages 339–355): Gilbert Quintero and Mark Nichter
Chapter 18 Anthropology and the Study of Illicit Drug Use (pages 357–377): J. Bryan Page
Chapter 19 Ethnomedicine (pages 379–403): Marsha B. Quinlan
Chapter 20 Medical Pluralism: An Evolving and Contested Concept in Medical Anthropology (pages 405–423): Hans A. Baer
Chapter 21 Biotechnologies of Care (pages 425–441): Julie Park and Ruth Fitzgerald
Chapter 22 Social Interaction and Technology: Cultural Competency and the Universality of Good Manners (pages 443–458): Kathryn Coe, Gail Barker and Craig Palmer
Chapter 23 Biocommunicability (pages 459–476): Charles L. Briggs
Chapter 24 Anthropology at the End of Life (pages 477–490): Ron Barrett
Chapter 25 Operationalizing a Right to Health: Theorizing a National Health System as a “Commons” (pages 491–514): Sandy Smith?Nonini and Beverly Bell
Chapter 26 As the Future Explodes into the Present: Emergent Issues and the Tomorrow of Medical Anthropology (pages 515–532): Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson