Medical anthropology in ecological perspective / Ann McElroy and Patricia K. Townsend.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McElroy, Ann, author.

Townsend, Patricia K., 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical anthropology.

Human beings--Effect of environment on.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Edition:

Sixth edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>Integrating biocultural, environmental, and evolutionary approaches to the study of human health, this premier teaching text for medical anthropology has been updated to reflect the latest developments in the field.</div>

Contents:

Contents; About the Authors and Contributors; Preface to the Sixth Edition ; CHAPTER 1: The Ecology of Health and Disease; Environment, Culture, and Health; Anthropological Subdisciplines and Medical Anthropology; PROFILE: Arctic Adaptations; A Working Model of Ecology and Health; Recommended Readings; CHAPTER TWO: Research Methods in Health Problems; Anthropological Approaches to the Use of Medicinal Plants; Bioenvironmental Data; PROFILE: Cannibal Mourners; Clinical Data; Epidemiological Data; Social and Cultural Data; Recommended Readings

CHAPTER THREE: Human Biocultural Diversity and Health Evolution and Biological Diversity; Human Immune Systems and Defense Against Disease; Mutation, Genetic Change, and Disease Resistance; PROFILE: Malaria and African Agriculture; Evolution and Medicine; Skin Color and Adaptation; Recommended Readings; CHAPTER FOUR: The Prehistory of Disease; Paleopathology: The Study of Disease in Prehistory; Nutrition and the Transition to Agriculture; PROFILE: Dry Bones: Health in Southwestern Prehistory; Beyond the Skeleton: Icemen and Mummies; Daily Life in the Past: Clues from the Skeleton

Violence and Inequality The Emergence of Cities; Forensic Anthropology: Contemporary Applications; Recommended Readings; CHAPTER FIVE: Emerging Diseases of the 21st Century ; The Ecology of Disease in the Anthropocene; PROFILE: The Medical Ecology of Cholera in Ecuador; Emerging Diseases in Aging Populations; Recommended Readings; CHAPTER SIX: Changing Population and Environmental Hazards Throughout Human History ; The Anthropological Study of Population; PROFILE: Stress, Alcohol, and Demographic Changes in Northern Siberia ; Environmental Trauma in Industrial Societies; Recommended Readings

CHAPTER SEVEN: Human Reproduction as a Biocultural Process Evolutionary and Ecological Influences on Reproduction; Pregnancy; Care Providers in Pregnancy and Birth; Birth Alternatives; Maternal Mortality; Toward an Ecology of Birth; Recommended Readings; CHAPTER EIGHT: The Ecology of Nutrition ; Human Nutritional Requirements; Subsistence by Hunting and Gathering; Subsistence in the Humid Tropics; Agriculture; PROFILE: Local Differences in Iodine Deficiency Goiter in the Western Himalaya; Industrial Agriculture; The Anthropology of Food and Cooking; Food, Medicine, or Drug?

Recommended Readings CHAPTER NINE: The Global Economy of Food: Stuffed or Starved; Globalization and Food Systems; The Obesity Epidemic: Alternative Interpretations; Nutrition and Child Growth; Food Insecurity; PROFILE: Famine in Ethiopia; Recommended Readings; CHAPTER TEN: Stress, Trauma, and Mental Illness; Responding to Trauma: The Stress Concept; Understanding the Physiology of Stress; Can Stress Induce Healing?; Biomarkers of Stress; Stress and Psychiatric Disorders; PROFILE: Legacies of War; Culture- Bound Syndromes; Resilience: A Buffer Against Stress

Stress and Evolutionary Adaptedness

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-97310-1

0-429-96202-9

0-429-49347-9

0-8133-4888-9

9780429493478

OCLC:

895428191