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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• 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.: 9910554863103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology Ser.