Donald Joralemon

Exploring Medical Anthropology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book 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 pedagogic features to support teaching and learning, including images, text boxes, a glossary, and suggested further reading.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 4th edition
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 175mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781138201866
• ISBN-10: 1138201863
• Artikelnr.: 48891743

Autorenporträt

Donald Joralemon is Professor of Anthropology at Smith College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What's So Cultural about Disease? 2. Anthropological Questions and
Methods in the Study of Sickness and Healing 3. Recognizing Biological,
Social, and Cultural Interconnections: Evolutionary and Ecological
Perspectives on a Cholera Epidemic 4. Expanding the Vision of Medical
Anthropology: Critical and Interpretive Views of the Cholera Epidemic 5.
The Global Petri Dish 6. Healers and the Healing Professions 7. Drugs 8.
Applying Medical Anthropology 9. Anthropology and Medical Ethics 10. A Look
Back and a Glance Ahead