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- catalog abstract ""A significant update of the 1990 classic state-of-the-art handbook on medical anthropology. With new chapters on AIDS, psychology and emotion, nutrition, and bioethics, the text reflects the changes in medical anthropological theory and practice since the late 1980s. Chapters from the first edition are revised to reflect current trends and to include recent references. This work demonstrates the creative expansion and diversity in the field, amidst efforts to explore the individual sickness experience in the context of local cultures and global, political and economic dynamics."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10146463.
- catalog contributor b10146464.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""A significant update of the 1990 classic state-of-the-art handbook on medical anthropology. With new chapters on AIDS, psychology and emotion, nutrition, and bioethics, the text reflects the changes in medical anthropological theory and practice since the late 1980s. Chapters from the first edition are revised to reflect current trends and to include recent references. This work demonstrates the creative expansion and diversity in the field, amidst efforts to explore the individual sickness experience in the context of local cultures and global, political and economic dynamics."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-542) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Theoretical perspectives. The therapeutic process / Thomas J. Csordas and Arthur Kleinman. -- Political economy in medical anthropology / Soheir A. Morsy. -- A critical-interpretive approach in medical anthropology: rituals and routines of discipline and dissent / Margaret Lock and Nancy Scheper-Hughes. -- Culture, emotion, and psychiatric disorder / Janis H. Jenkins. -- Clinically applied anthropology / Noel J. Chrisman and Thomas M. Johnson. -- pt. 2. Medical systems. Ethnomedicine / Arthur J. Rubel and Michael R. Hass. -- Ethnopsychiatry / Charles C. Hughes. -- Ethnopharmacology: the conjunction of medical ethnography and the biology of therapeutic action / Nina L. Etkin. -- Studying biomedicine as a cultural system / Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes. -- pt. 3. Health issues in human populations. Disease, ecology, and human behavior / Peter J. Brown, Marcia C. Inhorn, and Daniel J. Smith. -- Anthropology and studies of human reproduction / Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent. -- Alcohol and drug studies / Linda A. Bennett and Paul W. Cook, Jr. -- Culture, stress, and disease / William W. Dressler. -- Nutrition in medical anthropology / Sara A. Quandt. -- pt. 4. Methods in medical anthropology. Research designs in medical anthropology / Pertti J. Pelto and Gretel H. Pelto ; Epidemiology and medical anthropology / William R. True. -- pt. 5. Policy and advocacy. Bioethics in anthropology: perspectives on culture, medicine, a nd morality / Patricia A. Marshall and Barbara A. Koenig. -- The professionalization of indigenous healers / Murray Last. -- International health: problems and programs in anthropological perspective / Sandra D. Lane and Robert A. Rubinstein.".
- catalog extent "vi, 557 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0275952657 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Westport, Conn. : Praeger,".
- catalog subject "306.4/61 20".
- catalog subject "Anthropology.".
- catalog subject "GN296 .M425 1996".
- catalog subject "Medical anthropology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Theoretical perspectives. The therapeutic process / Thomas J. Csordas and Arthur Kleinman. -- Political economy in medical anthropology / Soheir A. Morsy. -- A critical-interpretive approach in medical anthropology: rituals and routines of discipline and dissent / Margaret Lock and Nancy Scheper-Hughes. -- Culture, emotion, and psychiatric disorder / Janis H. Jenkins. -- Clinically applied anthropology / Noel J. Chrisman and Thomas M. Johnson. -- pt. 2. Medical systems. Ethnomedicine / Arthur J. Rubel and Michael R. Hass. -- Ethnopsychiatry / Charles C. Hughes. -- Ethnopharmacology: the conjunction of medical ethnography and the biology of therapeutic action / Nina L. Etkin. -- Studying biomedicine as a cultural system / Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes. -- pt. 3. Health issues in human populations. Disease, ecology, and human behavior / Peter J. Brown, Marcia C. Inhorn, and Daniel J. Smith. -- Anthropology and studies of human reproduction / Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent. -- Alcohol and drug studies / Linda A. Bennett and Paul W. Cook, Jr. -- Culture, stress, and disease / William W. Dressler. -- Nutrition in medical anthropology / Sara A. Quandt. -- pt. 4. Methods in medical anthropology. Research designs in medical anthropology / Pertti J. Pelto and Gretel H. Pelto ; Epidemiology and medical anthropology / William R. True. -- pt. 5. Policy and advocacy. Bioethics in anthropology: perspectives on culture, medicine, a nd morality / Patricia A. Marshall and Barbara A. Koenig. -- The professionalization of indigenous healers / Murray Last. -- International health: problems and programs in anthropological perspective / Sandra D. Lane and Robert A. Rubinstein.".
- catalog title "Medical anthropology : contemporary theory and method / edited by Carolyn F. Sargent and Thomas M. Johnson.".
- catalog type "text".