Medical anthropology and the world system / Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baer, Hans A., 1944-

Contributor:

Singer, Merrill.

Susser, Ida.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political anthropology.

Physical Description:

x, 429 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Summary:

This is the first textbook on medical anthropology that examines the global diversity of health systems.

Contents:

I. What Is Medical Anthropology About? 1

1 Medical Anthropology: Central Concepts and Development 3

2 Theoretical Perspectives in Medical Anthropology 31

II. The Social Origins of Disease and Suffering 55

3 Health and the Environment: From Foraging Societies to the Capitalist World System 57

4 Homelessness in the World System 83

5 Legal Addictions, Part I: Demon in a Bottle 97

6 Legal Addictions, Part II: Up in Smoke 143

7 Illicit Drugs: Self-Medicating the Hidden Injuries of Oppression 169

8 AIDS: A Disease of the Global System 227

9 Reproduction and Inequality 283

III. Medical Systems in Social Context 305

10 Medical Systems in Indigenous and Precapitalist State Societies 307

11 Biomedical Hegemony in the Context of Medical Pluralism 329

IV. Toward an Equitable and Healthy Global System 353

12 The Pursuit of Health as a Human Right: Health Praxis and the Struggle for a Healthy World 355.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-424) and index.

ISBN:

0897898451

089789846X

OCLC:

52216282