Medical Anthropology
by Helman,Cecil G.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-10-28
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
This volume includes key research articles on the history, concepts, research findings and recent controversies in the field of medical anthropology. Papers are included on topics such as transcultural psychiatry, food and nutrition, anthropology of the body, alcohol and drug use, traditional healers, childbirth and bereavement and the applications of medical anthropology to international health issues, such as the HIV/AIDS pandemic, malaria prevention and family planning.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Basic Concepts | |
| Food and Nutrition | |
| Food beliefs and practices among British Bangladeshis with diabetes: implications for health education | |
| The biocultural approach in nutritional anthropology: case studies of malnutrition in Mali | |
| Alcohol and Drug Use | |
| Crack in Spanish Harlem: culture and economy in the inner city | |
| Cohesion and division: drinking in a English village | |
| Transcultural Psychiatry | |
| Cultural factors and international epidemiology | |
| The heart of what's the matter: the semantics of illness in Iran | |
| Heart disease and the cultural construction of time: the Type A behaviour pattern as a Western culture-bound syndrome | |
| The future of cultural psychiatry: an international perspective | |
| The mental health of refugee children and their cultural development | |
| Connectedness versus separateness: applicability of family therapy to Japanese families | |
| Medical Pluralism and Traditional Healers | |
| Innovative medicine - a case study of a modern healer | |
| Cold or spirits? Choice and ambiguity in Morocco's pluralistic medical system | |
| Languages of Distress | |
| The semantics of pain in Indian culture and medicine | |
| The angry liver, the anxious heart and the melancholy spleen | |
| Rituals of Childbirth and Death | |
| The technocratic model of birth | |
| McFunerals: the transition of Japanese funerary services | |
| Applied Anthropology | |
| International Health | |
| What is 'World Health'? | |
| Globality and constructions of world health | |
| Family Planning | |
| Culture and the management of family planning programs | |
| Indigenous forms of fertility control | |
| Diarrhoeal Diseases | |
| Cultural models of diarrheal illness: conceptual framework and review | |
| HIV and AIDS | |
| Knowledge and meaning: the AIDS education campaign in rural Northeast Thailand | |
| It's never as easy as ABC: understandings of AIDS in Botswana | |
| Malaria | |
| Fake malaria and hidden parasites - the ambiguity of malaria | |
| Infectious Diseases | |
| Kyasanur Forest Disease: an ethnography of a disease of development | |
| Contemporary Issues | |
| The Body | |
| The anthropology of the beginnings and ends of life | |
| Beyond nature and culture: modes of reasoning in the age of molecular biology and medicine | |
| Visible humans, vanishing bodies, and virtual nursing: complications of life, presence, place and identity | |
| Impossible gifts: bodies, Buddhism and bioethics in contemporary Sri Lanka | |
| Index | |
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This important volume includes key papers which outline the history, concepts, research findings and recent controversies in medical anthropology - the cross-cultural study of health, illness and medical care. Among the topics covered are transcultural psychiatry, food and nutrition, anthropology of the body, alcohol and drug use, traditional healers, childbirth and bereavement and the applications of medical anthropology to international health issues, such as the HIV/AIDS pandemic, malaria prevention and family planning. It is a valuable resource not only for scholars and students of medical anthropology but also for health professionals working in multi-cultural settings, or in international medical aid programmes.
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