Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology 3rd Edition u2013 Ebook PDF Version – Digital Instant Dowload.

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1629582913
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1629582917
• Author:  Peter J. Brown (Editor), Svea Closser (Editor)

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.

Table contents:

1. Medical anthropology: an introduction / Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser
2. Stone agers in the fast lane: chronic degenerative diseases in evolutionary perspective / S. Boyd Eaton, Marjorie Shostak, and Melvin Konner
3. Fundamentals of evolutionary medicine / Howard Chiou
4. Skin deep / Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin
5. Disease and dying while black: how racism, not race, gets under the skin / Alan Goodman
6. Pica: a biocultural approach to curious and compelling cravings / Sera Young
7. Adaptations to endemic malaria in Sardinia / Peter J. Brown
8. Evolutionary, historical, and political economic perspectives on health and disease / George J. Armelagos, Peter J. Brown, and Bethany Turner
9. Determinants of health / Thomas McKeown
10. Applied medical anthropology and the adverse health effects of climate change / Merril Singer and Hans Baer
11. Social inequalities and emerging infectious diseases / Paul Farmer
12. Culture, scarcity, and maternal thinking: maternal detachment and infant survival in a Brazilian shantytown / Nancy Scheper-Hughes
13. “Oaxacans like to work bent over”: the naturalization of social suffering among berry farm workers / Seth M. Holmes
14. Does America really want to solve its drug problem? / Merrill Singer
15. Syndemic suffering: rethinking social and health problems among Mexican immigrant women / Emily Mendenhall
16. Disease etiologies in non-western medical systems / George M. Foster
17. The healing lessons of ethnomedicine / Pamela I. Erickson
18. The sorcerer and his magic / Claude Lévi-Strauss
19. Beyond the doctor’s white coat: science, ritual, and healing in American biomedicine / Bisan Salhi
20. Doctors and patients: the role of clinicians in the placebo effect / Daniel Moerman
21. The nocebo phenomenon: concept, evidence, and Implications for public health / Robert A. Hahn
22. Learning to be a leper: a case study in the social construction of illness / Nancy E. Waxler
23. Strategic suffering in the illness narratives of Mexican cancer patients / Linda Hunt
24. The damaged self / Robert F. Murphy
25. Medical metaphors of women’s bodies: menstruation and menopause / Emily Martin
26. Religion and reproductive technologies / Marcia C. Inhorn
27. Spare parts for sale: violence, exploitation, suffering
28. Inventing a new death and making it believable / Margaret Lock
29. Do psychiatric disorders differ in different cultures? / Arthur Kleinman
30. What in the world Is autism? A cross-cultural perspective / Roy Richard Grinker
31. “I came back for this?” Veterans living with PTSD / Erin P. Finley
32. Structural violence and clinical medicine / Paul Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshavjee
33. Anthropology in the clinic: the problem of cultural competency and how to fix it / Arthur Kleinman and Peter Benson
34. Health beliefs and compliance with prescribed medication for hypertension among black women: New Orleans 1985-1986 / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention based on work by Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts and Efrain Reisin
35. Cultural competence and its discontents / Sarah Willen and Anne Kohler
36. The nature of stigma and medical conditions / Joan Ablon
37. Coping with stigma: lifelong adaptation of deaf people / Gaylene Becker
38. Stigma in the time of influenza: social and institutional responses to pandemic emergencies / Ron Barrett and Peter J. Brown
39. What happens when food prices skyrocket? An Ethiopian example / Craig Hadley, Jed Stevenson, Yemserach Tadesse, and Tefara Belachew
40. De-medicalizing anorexia: a new cultural brokering / Richard A. O’Connor and Penny Van Esterik
41. Expanding bodies in a shrinking world: anthropological perspectives on the global “obesity epidemic” / Alexandra Brewis
42. It takes a village healer: can traditional medicine remedy Africa’s AIDS crisis? / Matthew Steinglass
43. Sociocultural dynamics of female genital cutting / Ellen Gruenbaum
44. The polio eradication initiative in Pakistan: anthropological perspectives on why the world’s largest global health program may fail / Svea Closser
45. “All I eat is ARVs”: the paradox of AIDS treatment interventions in Central Mozambique / Ippolytos Andreas Kalofonos

Title tags:

Exploring Human Health: Insights from Medical Anthropology
Applying Medical Anthropology: A Guide to Cultural Perspectives in Healthcare
Navigating Illness and Wellness: A Medical Anthropology Approach