Medical anthropology : a biocultural approach /
"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 speci...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Anthropological Perspectives on Health and Disease
- Healers and Healing
- Diet and Nutrition in Health and Disease
- Growth and Development
- Reproductive Health in Biocultural Context
- Aging
- Infectious Diseases: Pathogens, Hosts, and Evolutionary Interplay
- Globalization, Poverty, and Infectious Disease
- Stress, Social Inequality, and Race and Ethnicity: Implications for Health Disparities
- Mental Health and Illness
- Epilogue: The Relevance of Medical Anthropology.