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Medical anthropology and the world system : critical perspectives / Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baer, Hans A., 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical anthropology.
- Anthropology, Medical.
- Social Medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- Anthropology, Medical.
- Social Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 521 pages.)
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2013]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Early medical practices are not just a historical curiosity, but real stories about people and health that may teach us much about the 21st century. This intriguing volume offers a comparative examination of early medicine and health care in regions as varied as ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China, the Islamic world, and medieval Europe. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Medical anthropology : central concepts and development
- Theoretical 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-497) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781440802560
- 1440802564
- Publisher Number:
- 99968993304
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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