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Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology Peter Brown

Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology By Peter Brown

Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology by Peter Brown


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A collection of 49 readings with background description that exposes students to the breadth of theoretical perspectives in the field of medical anthropology. It provides case studies of research as it is applied to a range of health settings: from cross-cultural clinical encounters to cultural analysis of new biomedical technologies.

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Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology Summary

Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology by Peter Brown

This collection of 49 readings with extensive background description exposes students to the breadth of theoretical perspectives and issues in the field of medical anthropology. The text provides specific examples and case studies of research as it is applied to a range of health settings: from cross-cultural clinical encounters to cultural analysis of new biomedical technologies to the implementation of programs in global health settings.

About Peter Brown

Peter J. Brown teaches at Emory University. He is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences and also a professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health. He serves as the Director of Emorys Center for Health, Culture and Society. He has co-edited : The Anthropology of Infectious Diseases; Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda; Applying Anthropology (9th edition); and Applying Cultural Anthropology (8th edition). His research primarily deals with sociocultural aspects of malaria and its control, and he serves on a malaria-related Scientific Advisory Committee for the World Health Organization. He has an additional research interest on cultural issues in obesity and its related chronic diseases. Recipient of several teaching awards, he is a director of a new program "Global Health, Culture and Society" at Emory College. Ron Barrett is a medical anthropologist and assistant professor at Emory University. His research interests concern the social dynamics of infectious diseases, religious healing, and decision-making at the end of life in both India and the United States. His study of religious healing and the stigma of leprosy is the subject of a book: Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India (University of California Press). Barrett is also a registered nurse with clinical experience in hospice, neuro-intensive care, and brain injury rehabilitation.

Table of Contents

* indicates new to the Second EditionTo the InstructorTo the StudentPart I. Understanding Medical Anthropology: Biosocial and Cultural Approaches1.Peter J. Brown, Ronald L. Barrett, Mark B. Padilla, and Erin P. Finley, Medical Anthropology: An Introduction to the FieldsBiosocial ApproachesEvolution, Health and Medicine2.S. Boyd Eaton, Marjorie Shostak, and Melvin Konner, Stone Agers in the Fast Lane: Chronic Degenerative Diseases in Evolutionary Perspective3.*R. Nesse, Culture and Medicine: How is Darwinian Medicine Useful?Human Biological Variation4.*Barry Bogin, The Tall and the Short of It5.*Alan Goodman, Why Genes Don't Count (For Racial Differences in Health)6.*Nina Jabolonski and George Chaplin, Skin DeepBioarchaeology and the History of Health7.George Armelagos, Health and Disease in Prehistoric Populations in Transition8.Thomas McKeown, Determinants of HealthCultural ApproachesCultural and Political Ecologies of Disease9.Peter J. Brown, Cultural Adaptations to Endemic Malaria in Sardinia10.Paul Farmer, Social Inequalities and Emerging Infectious Disease11.*Merrill Singer, Why is it Easier to Get Drugs than Drug Treatment in the United States?Ethnomedicine and Healers12.George M. Foster, Disease Etiologies in Non-Western Medical Systems13.Melvin Konner, Transcendental Medication14.*Dan W. Blumhagen, The Doctor's White Coat: The Image of the Physician in Modern AmericaBelief and Healing15.Claude Levi-Strauss, The Sorcerer and His Magic16.*Daniel Moerman, Doctors and Patients: The Role of Clinicians in the Placebo Effect17.Robert A. Hahn, The Nocebo Phenomenon: Concept, Evidence, and implications for Public HealthThe Meaning and Experience of Illness18.Nancy E. Waxler, Learning to Be a Leper: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Illness19.*Linda M. Hunt, Strategic Suffering: Illness Narratives as Social Empowerment among Mexican Cancer Patients20.Robert F. Murphy, The Damaged SelfBiomedicine, Technology, and the Body21.Rayna Rapp, Accounting for Amniocentesis22.*Marcia Inhorn, Religion and Reproductive Technologies 23.*Carrie Friese, Gay Becker, and Robert Nachtigall, Rethinking the Biological Clock: Eleventh Hour Moms, Miracle Moms, and the Meanings of Age-Related Infertility24.*Margaret Lock, Inventing a New Death and Making it Believable Culture, Illness, and Mental Health25.Arthur Kleinman, Do Psychiatric Disorders Differ in Different Cultures?26.Arthur J. Rubel, The Epidemiology of a Folk Illness: Susto in Hispanic America27.*Chikako Ozawa-DeSilva, Seeking to Escape the Suffering of Existence: Internet Suicide in JapanPart II. Applying Medical AnthropologyCase Studies in Explanatory Models28.W. Dressler, Ethnomedical Beliefs and Patient Adherence to a Treatment Regimen: A St. Lucien Example29.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on work by Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts and Efrain Reisin, Health Beliefs and Compliance with Prescribed Medication for Hypertension Among Black Women - New Orleans 1985-86Working with the Culture of Biomedicine30.*Thomas Johnson, Anthropology and the World of Physicians31.Elois Ann Berlin and William C. Fowkes, Jr., A Teaching Framework for Cross-Cultural Health Care32.*Janelle S. Taylor, Confronting "Culture" In Medicine's "Culture of No Culture"33. Arthur Kleinman and Peter Benson, Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to fix itEthnicity and Health Care34.Robert T. Trotter, II, A Case of Lead Poisoning from Folk Remedies in Mexican American Communities35.Merrill Singer, Freddie Valentin, Hans Baer, and Zhongke Jia, Why Does Juan Garcia Have a Drinking Problem? The Perspective of Critical Medical Anthropology36.*Leandris Liburd, Apophia Namageyo-Funa, Leonard Jack, Understanding "Masculinity" and the Challenges of Managing Type-2 Diabetes among African-American MenStigma and Coping with Chronic Illness37.Gaylene Becker, Coping with Stigma: Lifelong Adaptation of Deaf People38.Marcia C. Inhorn, Genital Herpes: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Being Discreditable in American Society39.*Ronald Barrett and Peter J. Brown, Stigma in the Time of Influenza: Social and Institutional Responses to Pandemic Emergencies40.Paul Farmer and Arthur Kleinman, AIDS as Human SufferingGender and Health41.Emily Martin, Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause42.Candace West, Turn-Taking in Doctor-Patient Dialogues43.Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking: Maternal Detachment and Infant Survival in a Brazilian ShantytownCulture and Nutrition: Fat and Thin44.Katherine A. Dettwyler, The Biocultural Approach in Nutritional Anthropology: Case Studies of Malnutrition in Mali45.Peter J. Brown and Melvin Konner, An Anthropological Perspective on ObesityGlobal Health Issues and Programs46.Mark Nichter and Elizabeth Cartwright, Saving the Children for the Tobacco Industry47.Carl Kendall, Dennis Foote, and Reynaldo Martorell, Ethnomedicine and Oral Rehydration Therapy: A Case Study of Ethnomedical Investigation and Program Planning48.*Edward C Green, New Challenges to the AIDS Prevention ParadigmReferencesCreditsIndex

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CIN0073405388G
9780073405384
0073405388
Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology by Peter Brown
Used - Good
Paperback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
2009-06-16
480
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