Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology
Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology

Author: Peter J. Brown

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 1315416166

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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.

Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology
Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology

Author: Peter Brown

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Published: 2009-05-18

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780073405384

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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.

Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology
Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology

Author: Peter J. Brown

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13:

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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.

Culture and Health
Culture and Health

Author: Michael Winkelman

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-12-05

Total Pages: 812

ISBN-13: 0470462612

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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.

Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, Third Edition
Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, Third Edition

Author: Peter J. Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2015-11-15

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9781629582917

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This third edition of Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, thoroughly updated and including 17 new selections and articles written for this volume on such themes as Ebola, PTSD, autism, and obesity, remains the seminal textbook in the field.

Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology
Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology

Author: Peter Brown

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 2004-07-02

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780767427210

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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.

Exploring Medical Anthropology
Exploring Medical Anthropology

Author: Donald Joralemon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1315470594

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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.

Introducing Medical Anthropology
Introducing Medical Anthropology

Author: Merrill Singer

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2011-11-04

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0759120900

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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.

Studyguide for Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology by Brown, Peter J.
Studyguide for Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology by Brown, Peter J.

Author: Cram101 Textbook Reviews

Publisher: Cram101

Published: 2013-05

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9781490240572

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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Outlines are Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook. Accompanys: 9780521673761

The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology
The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology

Author: Lenore Manderson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1317743784

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The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting departure from conventional handbooks, compendia and encyclopedias, the three editors have written the core chapters of the volume, and in so doing, invite the reader to reflect on the ethnographic richness and theoretical contributions of research on the clinic and the field, bioscience and medical research, infectious and non-communicable diseases, biomedicine, complementary and alternative modalities, structural violence and vulnerability, gender and ageing, reproduction and sexuality. As a way of illustrating the themes, a rich variety of case studies are included, presented by over 60 authors from around the world, reflecting the diverse cultural contexts in which people experience health, illness, and healing. Each chapter and its case studies are introduced by a photograph, reflecting medical and visual anthropological responses to inequality and vulnerability. An indispensible reference in this fastest growing area of anthropological study, The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology is a unique and innovative contribution to the field.