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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554863103321

Titolo

A companion to medical anthropology / / edited by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson, César E. Abadía-Barrero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-119-71896-1

1-119-71894-5

1-119-71892-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (490 pages)

Collana

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology Ser.

Disciplina

306.461

Soggetti

Medical anthropology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- A Companion to Medical Anthropology -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Theories, Applications, and Methods -- 1 Re/Inventing Medical Anthropology: Definitional Struggles and Key Debates (Or: Answering the Cri Du Coeur) -- 2 Critical Biocultural Approaches to Health and Illness -- 3 Applied Medical Anthropology: Praxis, Pragmatics, Politics, and Promises -- 4 Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology -- Part II: Contexts and Conditions -- 5 Culture and the Stress Process -- 6 Global Health -- 7 Syndemics in Global Health -- 8 The Ecology of Health and Disease -- 9 The Medical Anthropology of Water and Sanitation -- 10 Medical Anthropology of Political Violence and War -- 11 Medical Anthropology at the End of Life -- Part III: Health and Behavior -- 12 The Anthropology of Reproduction -- 13 Anthropological Approaches to Migration and Health -- 14 Current Approaches to Nutritional Health in Medical Anthropology -- 15 Cancers' Multiplicities: Anthropologies of Interventions and Care -- 16 Anthropology and the Study of Illicit Drug Use -- 17 Revisiting Generation Rx: Emerging Trends in Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Lifestyle Regulation, Self-Medication, and Recreational Drug Use -- Part



IV: Healthwork: Care, Treatment, and Communication -- 18 Ethnomedicines: Traditions of Medical Knowledge -- 19 Medical Pluralism: An Evolving and Contested Concept in Medical Anthropology -- 20 Biotechnologies of Care -- 21 Medicine: Colonial, Postcolonial, or Decolonial? -- 22 The Politics of Communicability -- Part V: The Road Ahead -- 23 When Workers' Health is Public Health: The Structural Complicity of State Public Health Policies on Covid-19 Spread in Meat-Processing Plants and Minority Communities -- 24 Climate Change and Health: Anthropology and Beyond -- Index --  -- EULA.