A companion to medical anthropology / edited by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson, and César E. Abadía-Barrero.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Singer, Merrill, editor.

Erickson, Pamela I. (Pamela Irene), 1951- editor.

Abadía-Barrero, César, editor.

Wiley InterScience (Online service)

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 9.

The Wiley Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Re/inventing medical anthropology : definitional struggles and key debates (or: answering the "cri du coeur") / Elisa J. Sobo

Critical biocultual approaches to health and illness / Tom Leatherman and Alan H. Goodman

Applied medical anthropology : praxis, pragmatics, politics, and promises / Robert T. Trotter, II

Research design and methods in medical anthropology / Clarence C. Gravlee

Culture and the stress process / William W. Dressler

Global health / Craig R. Janes, Jennifer A. Liu & Kitty K. Corbett

Syndemics in global health / Merrill Singer & Emily Mendenhall

The ecology of health and disease / Patricia K. Townsend

The medical anthropology of water and sanitation / E. Christian Wells & Linda M. Whiteford

Medical anthropology of political violence and war / Barbara Rylko-Bauer

Medical anthropology at the end of life / Ron Barrett

The anthropology of reproduction / Elise Andaya & Mounia El Kotni

Anthropological approaches to migration and health / Heide Castañeda

Current approaches to nutritional health in medical anthropology / Deven Gray, David A Himmelgreen, Nancy Romero Daza & Charlotte Noble

Cancers' multiplicities : anthropologies of interventions and care / Lenore Manderson

Anthropology and the study of illicit drug use / J. Bryan Page

Revisiting generation Rx : emerging trends in pharmaceutical enhancement, lifestyle regulation, self-medication, and recreational drug use / Gilbert Quintero & Mark Nichter

Ethnomedicines / Marsha B. Quinlan

Medical pluralism : an evolving and contested concept in medical anthropology / Hans A. Baer

Biotechnologies of care / Ruth Fitzgerald & Julie Park

Medicine : colonial, postcolonial, or decolonial? / César E. Abadía-Barrero

The politics of communicability / Charles L. Briggs

When workers' health is public health : applying medical anthropology to analyze the structural complicity of state public health policies as COVID-19 spread in meat-processing plants and minority communities / Sandy Smith-Nonini

Climate change and health : anthropology & beyond / Merrill Singer, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet and Ashley L. Graham.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 06, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Companion to medical anthropology

ISBN:

9781119718963

1119718961

9781119718925

1119718929

9781119718949

1119718945

Publisher Number:

40031063014

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.