eBook, ePUB

A Companion to Medical Anthropology (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today. * Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s * Written by leading international scholars in medical anthropology * Covers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance abuse, infectious disease, and sexuality and reproductive health, and other topics

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 1.87MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Merrill Singer is Professor at the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut; and Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention. Pamela I. Erickson is Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444395297
• Artikelnr.: 38308120

Rezensionen

"It will be of use to undergraduates and postgraduates, as well as proving worthwhile to academics seeking accessible summaries of areas outside their specialism."

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute