[PDF] Introducing Medical Anthropology eBook

Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759120900

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This revised textbook provides students with a first exposure to the growing field of medical anthropology. The narrative is guided by unifying themes. First, medical anthropology is actively engaged in helping to address pressing health problems around the globe through research, intervention, and policy-related initiatives. Second, illness and disease cannot be fully understood or effectively addressed by treating them solely as biological in nature; rather, health problems involve complex biosocial processes and resolving them requires attention to range of factors including systems of belief, structures of social relationship, and environmental conditions. Third, through an examination of health inequalities on the one hand and environmental degradation and environment-related illness on the other, the book underlines the need for going beyond cultural or even ecological models of health toward a comprehensive medical anthropology. The authors show that a medical anthropology that integrates biological, cultural, and social factors to truly understand the origin of ill health will contribute to more effective and equitable health care systems.

Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1538106477

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Introducing Medical Anthropology, Third Edition, is intended for use in the medical anthropology course taught primarily at four year universities.

Author : Donald Joralemon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315470594

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Now in its fourth edition, Exploring Medical Anthropology provides a concise and engaging introduction to medical anthropology. It presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence. Concrete examples and the author’s personal research experiences are utilized to explain some of the discipline’s most important insights, such as that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of disease and that medical anthropology can help to alleviate human suffering. The text has been thoroughly updated for the fourth edition, including fresh case studies and a new chapter on drugs. It contains a range of pedagogical features to support teaching and learning, including images, text boxes, a glossary, and suggested further reading.

Author : Michael Winkelman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 2008-12-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0470462612

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Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address the challenges of cross-cultural medicine through interdisciplinary cultural-ecological models and personal and institutional developmental approaches to cross-cultural adaptation and competency. The book addresses the perspectives of clinically applied anthropology, trans-cultural psychiatry and the medical ecology, critical medical anthropology and symbolic paradigms as frameworks for enhanced comprehension of health and the medical encounter. Includes cultural case studies, applied vignettes, and self-assessments.

Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1351845160

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The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the last ten years. Standing as an opposition approach to conventional medical anthropology, critical medical anthropology has emphasized the importance of political and economy forces, including the exercise of power, in shaping health, disease, illness experience, and health care.

Author : Marcia C. Inhorn
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822352702

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This work offers productive insight into the field of medical anthropology and its future, as viewed by some of the world's leading medical anthropologists.

Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1405190027

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

Author : Brian M. Howell
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1493418068

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What is the role of culture in human experience? This concise yet solid introduction to cultural anthropology helps readers explore and understand this crucial issue from a Christian perspective. Now revised and updated throughout, this new edition of a successful textbook covers standard cultural anthropology topics with special attention given to cultural relativism, evolution, and missions. It also includes a new chapter on medical anthropology. Plentiful figures, photos, and sidebars are sprinkled throughout the text, and updated ancillary support materials and teaching aids are available through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources.

Author : Jason W. Wilson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1498597696

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Clinical Anthropology 2.0 presents a new approach to applied medical anthropology that engages with clinical spaces, healthcare systems, care delivery and patient experience, public health, as well as the education and training of physicians. In this book, Jason W. Wilson and Roberta D. Baer highlight the key role that medical anthropologists can play on interdisciplinary care teams by improving patient experience and medical education. Included throughout are real life examples of this approach, such as the training of medical and anthropology students, creation of clinical pathways, improvement of patient experiences and communication, and design patient-informed interventions. This book includes contributions by Heather Henderson, Emily Holbrook, Kilian Kelly, Carlos Osorno-Cruz, and Seiichi Villalona.

Author : Jennie Gamlin
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1787355829

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Critical Medical Anthropology presents inspiring work from scholars doing and engaging with ethnographic research in or from Latin America, addressing themes that are central to contemporary Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA). This includes issues of inequality, embodiment of history, indigeneity, non-communicable diseases, gendered violence, migration, substance abuse, reproductive politics and judicialisation, as these relate to health. The collection of ethnographically informed research, including original theoretical contributions, reconsiders the broader relevance of CMA perspectives for addressing current global healthcare challenges from and of Latin America. It includes work spanning four countries in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru) as well as the trans-migratory contexts they connect and are defined by. By drawing on diverse social practices, it addresses challenges of central relevance to medical anthropology and global health, including reproduction and maternal health, sex work, rare and chronic diseases, the pharmaceutical industry and questions of agency, political economy, identity, ethnicity, and human rights.