SECTION A: Orientation
Introduction
Medical Anthropology and its Transformation
The Critical Gaze
Postmodernism Medical Anthropology: A Critique
SECTION B: The Macro-Social Level
Health-Related Issues in Socialist-Oriented Societies: Ideals,
Contradictions, and Realities
Studying Up: The Political Economy of Nuclear Regulation
SECTION C: The Intermediate-Social Level
The American Dominative Medical System as a Reflection of Social Relations
in the Larger Society
AIDS and the Health Crisis of the U.S. Urban Poor
The Drive for Professionalization in British Osteopathy
SECTION D: The Micro-Social Level
Medical Hegemony, Biomedical Magic, and Folk Medicine: Reproductive Illness
among Haitian Women
Prophets and Advisors in African-American Spiritual Churches: Therapy,
Palliative, or Opiate?
SECTION E: The Individual Level
Confronting Juan GarcÃa's Drinking Problem: The Demedicalization of
Alcoholism
Cure, Care and Control: Agency and the Structure in the Clinical Encounter
SECTION F: Directions
How Critical Can Clinical Anthropology Be?
Critical Praxis in Medical Anthropology
Topic Index
Name Index
