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Medical anthropology : a biocultural approach / Andrea S. Wiley, Indiana University, Bloomington, John S. Allen, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Penn Museum Library GN296 .W55 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wiley, Andrea S., 1962- author.
- Allen, John S. (John Scott), 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical anthropology--Textbooks.
- Medical anthropology.
- Genre:
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 481 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "This is a medical anthropology textbook"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction: A Biocultural Approach to Medical Anthropology
- What Is Anthropology?
- The Development of Medical Anthropology
- What Is Medical Anthropology?
- The Culture Concept
- A Biocultural Perspective
- Looking Ahead
- ch. 2 Anthropological Perspectives on Health and Disease
- Definitions of Health
- Disease
- Illness
- Sickness
- The Locus of Health: The Body and Society
- Biological Normalcy
- Evolutionary Perspectives on Health
- Adaptability
- Behavioral Adaptability
- Cultural Approaches in Medical Anthropology
- Political Economy of Health
- Ethnomedical Systems
- Interpretive Approaches to Illness and Suffering
- Applied Medical Anthropology
- Epidemiology
- Conclusion
- ch. 3 Healers and Healing
- Culture and Healing Systems
- Recruitment: How Healers Become Healers
- Alternative and Complementary Medicines
- Acupuncture
- Chiropractic
- Navajo Medicine
- When Biomedicine Is Alternative Medicine
- Alternative Biomedicines
- Death as a Biocultural Concept
- Placebo and Nocebo
- Efficacy
- Vaccination and Anti-Vaxx Movements
- ch. 4 Diet and Nutrition in Health and Disease
- Human Nutrition
- How Many Nutrients Do You Need?
- Diet and Digestion
- Nutrition Transitions in Human Prehistory and History
- Evolutionary History: Hunter Gatherer and "Paleo" Diets
- Agricultural Transition
- Post-agricultural Dietary Adaptations and Challenges
- Lactase Persistence/Non-persistence and Lactose Intolerance
- Celiac Disease
- Barry Popkin's Nutrition Transition: Globalization and Ultra-processing
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Future Nutrition Transitions and Sustainability Concerns
- ch. 5 Child Growth and Health
- Life History Theory
- Gestation: The First
- Weeks of Growth and Development
- Infancy
- Childhood
- Small but Healthy?
- Is Bigger Better?
- Sex, Gender, Growth, and Health
- Environmental Toxins and Growth
- Puberty and the Onset of Adolescence
- Teenage Pregnancy in the United States
- ch. 6 Reproductive Health in Biocultural Context
- Medicalization of Women's Health and Reproductive Health
- Menstruation
- Premenstrual Syndrome
- Determinants of Fertility
- Infertility
- The Medicalization of Male Sexual Dysfunction
- Female Genital Cutting
- Pregnancy
- Birth
- Mothering
- Bed-Sharing and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- Menopause
- Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer Risk
- ch. 7 Aging
- The Aging Body
- Physiological Theories of Aging
- Somatic Mutations
- Free Radicals
- Wear and Degeneration
- Telomeres
- Evolutionary Theories of Aging
- The Aging Brain
- Extending Life? Caloric Restriction and an Okinawa Case Study
- Health, Illness, and the Cultural Construction of Aging
- The Future of Aging
- ch. 8 Infectious Diseases: Pathogens, Hosts, and Evolutionary Interplay
- Koch's Postulates
- Taxonomy of Infectious Disease
- Viruses
- Bacteria
- Protozoa
- Fungi
- Worms
- Prions
- How Pathogens Spread
- Human Defenses against Pathogens
- The Immune Response: A Brief Overview
- Human-Pathogen Coevolution
- Malaria: A Post-agricultural Disease
- Evolutionary Changes in Pathogens
- Variation in Pathogen Virulence
- Allergies and Asthma: Relationship to Infectious Disease Exposure?
- ch. 9 Globalization, Poverty, and Infectious Disease
- Emergent and Resurgent Diseases
- Social Transformations, Colonialism, and Globalizing Infections
- Smallpox
- Colonialism and Disease in the Tropics
- Colonialism's Health Legacy
- Climate Change and Emerging/Resurging Diseases
- Cholera
- Dams and Infectious Disease
- Tuberculosis: Emerging and Resurging
- HIV/AIDS: A New(ish) Disease
- ch. 10 Stress, Social Inequality, and Race and Ethnicity: Implications for Health Disparities
- Biology of the Stress Response
- The Nervous System Stress Response
- The Hormonal Stress Response
- Why Is Stress Different for Humans?
- Stress and Biological Normalcy
- Stress and Health
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Immune Function
- Child Growth
- Inequality, Stress, and Health
- Relative Status
- Social Cohesion
- Social Support
- Race/Ethnicity, Racism/Discrimination, and Health in the United States
- ch. 11 Mental Health and Illness
- The Medical Model in Biocultural Context
- Culture-Bound Syndromes
- Eating Disorders
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Culture
- Mood Disorders
- Depression
- Bipolar Disorder and Creativity
- Schizophrenia
- Sleep
- EPILOGUE The Relevance of Medical Anthropology
- What Can I Do Next If I Am Interested in Medical Anthropology?
- Graduate Programs in Anthropology
- Public Health Programs
- Medical Schools and Clinical Health Professions
- Work in Governmental and Nongovernmental Health Agencies
- Genetic Counseling.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780197515990
- 0197515991
- OCLC:
- 1157616717
- Publisher Number:
- 99989843309
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