A Companion to Medical Anthropology

Copyright © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

A Companion to Medical Anthropology

Editor(s): Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson

Published Online: 14 JUL 2011 10:32AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781405190022

Online ISBN: 9781444395303

DOI: 10.1002/9781444395303

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A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.

  • Examines the key issues and current debates in medical anthropology
  • Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s
  • Written by leading international scholars in medical anthropology
  • Covers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance abuse, infectious disease, and sexuality and reproductive health, and other topics

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xxxiii)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–6)

  3. Part I: Theories, Applications, and Methods

    1. Chapter 1

      Medical Anthropology in Disciplinary Context: Definitional Struggles and Key Debates (or Answering the Cri Du Coeur) (pages 7–28)

      Elisa J. Sobo

    2. Chapter 2

      Critical Biocultural Approaches in Medical Anthropology (pages 29–48)

      Tom Leatherman and Alan H. Goodman

    3. Chapter 3

      Applied Medical Anthropology: Praxis, Pragmatics, Politics, and Promises (pages 49–68)

      Robert T. Trotter

    4. Chapter 4

      Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology (pages 69–91)

      Clarence C. Gravlee

    5. Chapter 5

      Medical Anthropology and Public Policy (pages 93–116)

      Merrill Eisenberg

  4. Part II: Contexts and Conditions

    1. Chapter 6

      Culture and the Stress Process (pages 117–134)

      William W. Dressler

    2. Chapter 7

      Global Health (pages 135–157)

      Craig R. Janes and Kitty K. Corbett

    3. Chapter 8

      Syndemics in Global Health (pages 159–179)

      Merrill Singer, D. Ann Herring, Judith Littleton and Melanie Rock

    4. Chapter 9

      The Ecology of Disease and Health (pages 181–195)

      Patricia K. Townsend

    5. Chapter 10

      The Medical Anthropology of Water (pages 197–218)

      Linda M. Whiteford and Cecilia Vindrola Padros

    6. Chapter 11

      Political Violence, War and Medical Anthropology (pages 219–249)

      Barbara Rylko-Bauer and Dr Merrill Singer

  5. Part III: Health and Behavior

    1. Chapter 12

      Humans in a World of Microbes: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease (pages 251–270)

      Peter J. Brown, George J. Armelagos and Kenneth C. Maes

    2. Chapter 13

      Sexuality, Medical Anthropology, and Public Health (pages 271–287)

      Pamela I. Erickson

    3. Chapter 14

      Situating Birth in the Anthropology of Reproduction (pages 289–303)

      Carolyn Sargent and Lauren Gulbas

    4. Chapter 15

      Nutrition and Health (pages 305–321)

      David A. Himmelgreen, Nancy Romero Daza and Charlotte A. Noble

    5. Chapter 16

      Anthropologies of Cancer and Risk, Uncertainty and Disruption (pages 323–338)

      Lenore Manderson

    6. Chapter 17

      Generation RX: Anthropological Research on Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Lifestyle Regulation, Self-Medication and Recreational Drug Use (pages 339–355)

      Gilbert Quintero and Mark Nichter

    7. Chapter 18

      Anthropology and the Study of Illicit Drug Use (pages 357–377)

      J. Bryan Page

  6. Part IV: Healthwork: Care, Treatment, and Communication

    1. Chapter 19

      Ethnomedicine (pages 379–403)

      Marsha B. Quinlan

    2. Chapter 20

      Medical Pluralism: An Evolving and Contested Concept in Medical Anthropology (pages 405–423)

      Hans A. Baer

    3. Chapter 21

      Biotechnologies of Care (pages 425–441)

      Julie Park and Ruth Fitzgerald

    4. Chapter 22

      Social Interaction and Technology: Cultural Competency and the Universality of Good Manners (pages 443–458)

      Kathryn Coe, Gail Barker and Craig Palmer

    5. Chapter 23

      Biocommunicability (pages 459–476)

      Charles L. Briggs

    6. Chapter 24

      Anthropology at the End of Life (pages 477–490)

      Ron Barrett

  7. Part V: The Road Ahead

    1. Chapter 25

      Operationalizing a Right to Health: Theorizing a National Health System as a “Commons” (pages 491–514)

      Sandy Smith-Nonini and Beverly Bell

    2. Chapter 26

      As the Future Explodes into the Present: Emergent Issues and the Tomorrow of Medical Anthropology (pages 515–532)

      Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson

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      Index (pages 533–541)

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