Anthropology and public health : bridging differences in culture and society / [edited by] Robert A. Hahn, Marcia C. Inhorn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hahn, Robert A., 1945-

Inhorn, Marcia C., 1957-

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Anthropological aspects.

Public health.

Anthropology, Cultural.

Public Health Practice.

Community Health Planning.

Developing Countries.

Health Services, Indigenous.

Medical Subjects:

Anthropology, Cultural.

Public Health Practice.

Community Health Planning.

Developing Countries.

Health Services, Indigenous.

Physical Description:

xxi, 730 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Established as the classic work in the field in its first edition, Anthropology and Public Health, 2nd edition remains the single, definitive, up-to-date analysis of anthropology's role in public health. This thoroughly revised and expanded new edition examines the critical role of anthropology in four crucial public health domains: (1) anthropological understandings of public health problems such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and diabetes; (2) anthropological design of public health interventions in areas such as tobacco control and elder care; (3) anthropological evaluations of public health initiatives such as Safe Motherhood and polio eradication; and (4) anthropological critiques of public health policies, including liberal health care reforms. As the volume demonstrates, anthropologists provide crucial understandings of public health problems from the perspectives of the populations in which the problems occur. Thus, anthropologists may develop and implement interventions to address particular public health problems, often working in collaboration with local participants. Anthropologists also work as evaluators, examining the activities of public health institutions and the successes and failures of public health programs. Anthropological critiques may focus on major international public health agencies and their workings, as well as public health responses to the threats of infectious disease and other disasters. Through 24 compelling case studies from around the world, the volume provides a powerful argument for the imperative of anthropological perspectives, methods, information, and collaboration in the understanding and practice of public health. Written in plain English, with significant attention to anthropological methodology, the book should be required reading for public health practitioners, medical anthropologists, and health policy makers. It should also be of interest to those in the behavioral and allied health sciences, as well as programs of public health administration, planning, and management.

Contents:

Part I Anthropological Understandings of Public Health Problems

1 The Anthropology of Childhood Malaria in Tanzania / Vinay R. Kamat 35

2 Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in the Medical Marketplace of India: Implications for Efforts to Improve Global Respiratory Health / David Van Sickle 65

3 Situating Stress: Lessons from Lay Discourses on Diabetes / Nancy E. Schoenberg, Elaine M. Drew, Eleanor Palo Stoller, Cary S. Kart 94

4 Understanding Pregnancy in a Population of Inner-City Women in New Orleans-Results of Qualitative Research / Carl Kendall, Aimee Afable-Munsuz, Ilene Speizer, Alexis Avery, Norine Schmidt, John Santelli 114

5 The Limits of "Heterosexual AIDS": Ethnographic Research on Tourism and Male Sexual Labor in the Dominican Republic / Mark B. Padilla 142

6 Male Infertility and Consanguinity in Lebanon: The Power of Ethnographic Epidemiology / Marcia C. Inhorn, Loulou Kobeissi, Antoine A. Abu-Musa, Johnny Awwad, Michael H. Fakih, Najwa Hammoud, Antoine B. Hannoun, Da'ad Lakkis, Zaher Nassar 165

7 Structural Violence, Political Violence, and the Health Costs of Civil Conflict: A Case Study from Peru / Tom Leatherman, R. Brooke Thomas 196

Part II Anthropological Design of Public Health Interventions

8 Bridges between Mental Health Care and Religious Healing in Puerto Rico: The Outcomes of an Early Experiment / Joan D. Koss-Chioino 221

9 Indigenization of Illness Support Groups for Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti / Jeannine Coreil, Gladys Mayard 245

10 Using Formative Research to Explore and Address Elder Health and Care in Chiapas, Mexico / Namino Glantz 266

11 Anthropological Contributions to the Development of Culturally Appropriate Tobacco Cessation Programs: A Global Health Priority / Mark Nichter, Mimi Nichter, Siwi Padmawti, C. U. Thresia, Project Quit Tobacco International Group 298

12 From Street Research to Public Health Intervention: The Hartford Drug Monitoring Project / Merrill Singer, Greg Mirhej, Claudia Santelices, Hassan Saleheen 332

13 Sexual Risk Reduction among Married Women and Men in Urban India: An Anthropological Intervention / Stephen L. Schensul, Ravi K. Verma, Bonnie K. Nastasi, Niranjan Saggurti, Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada 362

Part III Anthropological Evaluations of Public Health Initiatives

14 Honorable Mutilation? Changing Responses to Female Genital Cutting in Sudan / Ellen Gruenbaum 397

15 Making Pregnancy Safer for Women around the World: The Example of Safe Motherhood and Maternal Death in Guatemala / Nicole S. Berry 422

16 Counting on Mother's Love: The Global Politics of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Eastern Africa / Karen Marie Moland, Astrid Blystad 447

17 The Brazilian Response to AIDS and the Pharmaceuticalization of Global Health / Joao Biehl 480

18 Anthropological and Public Health Perspectives on the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in Northern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne 512

Part IV Anthropological Critiques of Public Health Policy

19 "Sanitary Makeshifts" and the Perpetuation of Health Stratification in Indonesia / Eric A. Stein 541

20 Global Panic, Local Repercussions: Economic and Nutritional Effects of Bird Flu in Vietnam / Stacy Lockerbie, D. Ann Herring 566

21 Neoliberal Infections and the Politics of Health: Resurgent Tuberculosis Epidemics in New York City and Lima, Peru / Sandy Smith-Nonini 588

22 Biological Citizenship After Chernobyl / Adriana Petryna 623

23 An Ethnographic Evaluation of Post-Alma Ata Health System Reforms in Mongolia: Lessons for Addressing Health Inequities in Poor Communities / Craig R. Janes 652

24 Bureaucratic Aspects of International Health Programs / George M. Foster 681.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Anthropology in public health. 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780195374643

0195374649

OCLC:

192042314