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

• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2022]; ©2022
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (490 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.461
• Soggetto topico: Medical anthropology
• Persona (resp. second.): SingerMerrill; EricksonPamela I <1951-> (Pamela Irene); Abadía-BarreroCésar
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Medical Anthropology is a "baby boomer" of sorts. It came into being alongside the unprecedented interest in the health and wellbeing of Third World peoples in the aftermath of WW II when the world was full of the hope and possibility that science, in this case biomedicine, could alleviate human suffering due to infectious disease and malnutrition, and then help eliminate or control many of the world's major health problems. Many anthropologists of that era worked with the international health community (WHO, USAID, UNICEF, etc.) to bring biomedicine to the world. The presumption guiding this effort was that shown the effectiveness of biomedicine and modern public health methods (e.g., the health value of boiling water before drinking it), while addressing contextual and cultural barriers to change, people would readily adopt new ways and the threat of many diseases would begin to diminish. Seven decades later, a large proportion of the morbidity and mortality in our world is still due to the same tenacious problems of malnutrition, pregnancy-related complications, infectious diseases, and lack of access to high-quality health care. Although some of the diseases, like HIV/AIDS, are new, one old disease but only one, smallpox, has been eliminated. With economic development, the so-called Third World was re-branded in terms of the size of each country's economy as low or middle income countries. With more "development," these countries started to experience a mixed epidemiologic profile: "diseases of poverty," on the one hand (Farmer, 2003), and chronic conditions such as cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, on the other. The raising awareness of the world interconnectedness demonstrated how health profiles depended on key social determinants of global health such as living and working conditions, level of education, neighborhood characteristics, and access to water, sanitation and health care services which are exacerbated by escalating levels of poverty, inequalities, war, genocide, and greed (Singer and Erickson, 2013)"--
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to medical anthropology
• ISBN: 1-119-71896-1; 1-119-71894-5; 1-119-71892-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910677334103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology