The Anthropology of Medicine

by Romanucci-Ross, Lola; Moerman, Daniel E.; Tancredi, Laurence R.

• ISBN13: 9780897892636
• ISBN10: 0897892631
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-12-01
• Publisher: Bergin & Garvey

Summary

Originally cited as "must reading" in American Anthropologist, this new third edition of the classic text contains new and updated materials. It is both a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of medical anthropology and a state-of-the-art reference work on Western and non-Western medicine.

Table of Contents

Preface: the Cultural Context of Medicine and the Biohuman Paradigm	p. ix
References	p. xiv
Medical Systems and the Uses of Choice	p. 1
References	p. 3
Creativity in Illness: Methodological Linkages to the Logic and Language of Science in Folk Pursuit of Health in Central Italy	p. 5
Notes	p. 17
References	p. 18
Aztec and European Medicine in the New World, 1521-1600	p. 19
Notes	p. 27
Phantoms and Physicians: Social Change Through Medical Pluralism	p. 31
Notes	p. 52
References	p. 56
Empirical Analyses of Non-Western Medical Practices and Medical Ecology	p. 59
References	p. 60
Poisoned Apples and Honeysuckles: the Medicinal Plants of Native America	p. 61
Acknowledgments	p. 69
References	p. 70
Herbal and Symbolic Forms of Treatment in the Medicine of the Lowland Mixe (oaxaca, Mexico)	p. 71
Acknowledgments	p. 93
References	p. 94
The Evolution of Human Nutrition	p. 96
Acknowledgments	p. 137
References	p. 138
Zoonoses and the Origins of Old and New World Viral Diseases: New Perspectives	p. 143
Appendix: Short Descriptions of Animal Virus Families	p. 164
References	p. 166
Malaria, Medicine, and Meals: A Biobehavioral Perspective	p. 169
Acknowledgments	p. 201
Notes	p. 203
Notes	p. 204
Embodied Mind: Metaphors of Pain, Placebo, and Symbolic Healing	p. 211
References	p. 213
The Impassioned Knowledge of the Shaman	p. 215
Notes	p. 221
References	p. 222
Anarchy, Abjection, and Absurdity: A Case of Metaphoric Medicine Among the Tabwa of Zaire	p. 224
Acknowledgments	p. 236
Notes	p. 238
References	p. 239
Physiology and Symbols: the Anthropological Implications of the Placebo Effect	p. 240
Acknowledgments	p. 251
References	p. 252
Narratives of Chronic Pain	p. 254
Notes	p. 270
References	p. 272
The Effect of Ethnicity on Prescriptions for Patient Controlled Analgesia for Post-Operative Pain	p. 273
Acknowledgments	p. 279
References	p. 280
Modern Medical Inquiry and Culture Change	p. 281
References	p. 284
Stress and Its Management: the Cultural Construction of an Illness and Its Treatment	p. 285
Notes	p. 302
Science of the Mind in Contexts of A Culture	p. 305
References	p. 317
The "New Psychiatry": from Ideology to Cultural Error	p. 318
Notes	p. 333
References	p. 334
The Aging: Legal and Ethical Personhood in Culture Change	p. 336
References	p. 348
The Extraneous Factor in Western Medicine	p. 351
Acknowledgments	p. 365
Notes	p. 366
References	p. 367
"Medical Anthropology": Convergence of Mind and Experience in the Anthropological Imagination	p. 369
References	p. 379
Index	p. 383
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 399
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