Doing health anthropology : research methods for community assessment and change / Christie W. Kiefer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiefer, Christie W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical anthropology--Research--Methodology.

Medical anthropology.

Public health--Anthropological aspects--Research--Methodology.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is the relationship between health, human nature, and human needs?. The impact of social change on communities?. The processes by which communities confront and overcome their health problems?. How do we study these health questions in new communities and become advocates for change?. These are critical questions in confronting the social causes of ill health, yet many health students do not have the appropriate training in the anthropological methods and techniques that help answer them. Christie Kiefer has written Doing Health Anthropology to prompt students to enter the community alrea

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Why Anthropology?; 2. Positivism: The Laboratory Theory of Knowledge; 3. The Naturalistic Theory of Knowledge: Anthropology; 4. The Study of Real People in Natural Situations; 5. Designing a Research Project; 6. The Researcher in and Beyond the Community; 7. Collecting Data; 8. Analyzing Data; 9. The Theory of Needs; 10. Community Change: The Theory of Hope; 11. Action Anthropology; 12. Teaching Health Anthropology; 13. Professionalism in Naturalistic Social Science; Appendix; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-259) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-95803-0

9786610958030

0-8261-1558-6

OCLC:

437109876