Understanding And Applying Medical Anthropology

Author : Peter J. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315416166
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology written by Peter J. Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors of the third edition of the seminal textbook Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology bring it completely up to date for both instructors and students. The collection of 49 readings (17 of them new to this edition) offers extensive background description and exposes students to the breadth of theoretical, methodological, and practical 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 and the implementation of programs in global health settings. The new edition features: • a major revision that eliminates many older readings in favor of more fresh, relevant selections; • a new section on structural violence that looks at the impact of poverty and other forms of social marginalization on health; • an updated and expanded section on “Conceptual Tools,” including new research and ideas that are currently driving the field of medical anthropology forward (such as epigenetics and syndemics); • new chapters on climate change, Ebola, PTSD among Iraq/Afghanistan veterans, eating disorders, and autism, among others; • recent articles from Margaret Mead Award winners Sera Young, Seth Holmes, and Erin Finley, along with new articles by such established medical anthropologists as Paul Farmer and Merrill Singer.

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 13 : 9780073405384
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology written by Peter Brown and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Peter J. Brown
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology written by Peter J. Brown and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1998 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of readings exposes students to the breadth of theoretical viewpoints and issues in the field of medical anthropology. The text provides specific examples and case studies of research as it is applied in a range of health settings - from clinical encounters to preventive services to international health.

Author : Peter J. Brown
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Author : Michael Winkelman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470462612
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Health written by Michael Winkelman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-12-05 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address the challenges of cross-cultural medicine through interdisciplinary cultural-ecological models and personal and institutional developmental approaches to cross-cultural adaptation and competency. The book addresses the perspectives of clinically applied anthropology, trans-cultural psychiatry and the medical ecology, critical medical anthropology and symbolic paradigms as frameworks for enhanced comprehension of health and the medical encounter. Includes cultural case studies, applied vignettes, and self-assessments.

Author : Donald Joralemon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315470594
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Medical Anthropology written by Donald Joralemon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its fourth edition, Exploring Medical Anthropology provides a concise and engaging introduction to medical anthropology. It presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence. Concrete examples and the author’s personal research experiences are utilized to explain some of the discipline’s most important insights, such as that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of disease and that medical anthropology can help to alleviate human suffering. The text has been thoroughly updated for the fourth edition, including fresh case studies and a new chapter on drugs. It contains a range of pedagogical features to support teaching and learning, including images, text boxes, a glossary, and suggested further reading.

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 : 9780767427210
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology written by Peter Brown and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2004-07-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of readings exposes students to the breadth of theoretical viewpoints and issues in the field of medical anthropology. It provides specific examples and case studies of research as it is applied in a range of health settings, from clinical encounters to preventive services to international health.

Author : Andrea S. Wiley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199797080
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Anthropology written by Andrea S. Wiley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ideal core text for introductory courses, Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach, Second Edition, offers an accessible and contemporary overview of this rapidly expanding field. For each health issue examined in the text, the authors first present basic biological information on specific conditions and then expand their analysis to include evolutionary, historical, and cross-cultural perspectives on how these issues are understood. Medical Anthropology considers how a biocultural approach can be applied to more effective prevention and treatment efforts and underscores medical anthropology's potential to improve health around the world.

Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759120900
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing Medical Anthropology written by Merrill Singer and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised textbook provides students with a first exposure to the growing field of medical anthropology. The narrative is guided by unifying themes. First, medical anthropology is actively engaged in helping to address pressing health problems around the globe through research, intervention, and policy-related initiatives. Second, illness and disease cannot be fully understood or effectively addressed by treating them solely as biological in nature; rather, health problems involve complex biosocial processes and resolving them requires attention to range of factors including systems of belief, structures of social relationship, and environmental conditions. Third, through an examination of health inequalities on the one hand and environmental degradation and environment-related illness on the other, the book underlines the need for going beyond cultural or even ecological models of health toward a comprehensive medical anthropology. The authors show that a medical anthropology that integrates biological, cultural, and social factors to truly understand the origin of ill health will contribute to more effective and equitable health care systems.

Author : Marcia C. Inhorn
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822352702
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Anthropology at the Intersections written by Marcia C. Inhorn and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers productive insight into the field of medical anthropology and its future, as viewed by some of the world's leading medical anthropologists.