A Companion to Medical Anthropology

by Singer, Merrill; Erickson, Pamela I.

• ISBN13: 9781405190022
• ISBN10: 1405190027
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-02
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today. Examines the key issues and current debates in medical anthropology 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

Author Biography

Merrill Singer, PhD is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut; and Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention and Professor of Anthropology, University of Connecticut.   He has published over 200 articles and is author/co-author or editor of over 20 books. For his work in the field of medical anthropology, Dr Singer has been awarded a number of prestigious awards, including the Rudolph Virchow Prize, the AIDS and Anthropology Paper Prize, the George Foster Memorial Award in Practicing Anthropology.

Pamela I. Erickson, PhD is Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut Formerly editor of the scholarly journal Medical Anthropology Quarterly, she is a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology, and has also served on the Governing Council of the Family and Reproductive Health Section of the American Public Health Association.

Table of Contents

Synopsis of Contents	p. viii
List of Figures	p. xix
List of Tables	p. xx
Notes on Contributors	p. xxi
Acknowledgments - Personal	p. xxxii
Acknowledgments - Sources	p. xxxiii
Introduction	p. 1
Theories, Applications, and Methods	p. 7
Medical Anthropology in Disciplinary Context: Definitional Struggles and Key Debates (or Answering the Cri Du Coeur)	p. 9
Critical Biocultural Approaches in Medical Anthropology	p. 29
Applied Medical Anthropology: Praxis, Pragmatics, Politics, and Promises	p. 49
Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology	p. 69
Medical Anthropology and Public Policy	p. 93
Contexts and Conditions	p. 117
Culture and the Stress Process	p. 119
Global Health	p. 135
Syndemics in Global Health	p. 159
The Ecology of Disease and Health	p. 181
The Medical Anthropology of Water	p. 197
Political Violence, War and Medical Anthropology	p. 219
Health and Behavior	p. 251
Humans in a World of Microbes: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease	p. 253
Sexuality, Medical Anthropology, and Public Health	p. 271
Situating Birth in the Anthropology of Reproduction	p. 289
Nutrition and Health	p. 305
Anthropologies of Cancer and Risk, Uncertainty and Disruption	p. 323
Generation RX: Anthropological Research on Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Lifestyle Regulation, Self-Medication and Recreational Drug Use	p. 339
Anthropology and the Study of Illicit Drug Use	p. 357
Healthwork: Care, Treatment, and Communication	p. 379
Ethnomedicine	p. 381
Medical Pluralism: An Evolving and Contested Concept in Medical Anthropology	p. 405
Biotechnologies of Care	p. 425
Social Interaction and Technology: Cultural Competency and the Universality of Good Manners	p. 443
Biocommunicability	p. 459
Anthropology at the End of Life	p. 477
The Road Ahead
Operationalizing a Right to Health: Theorizing a National Health System as a ôCommonsö	p. 493
As the Future Explodes into the Present: Emergent Issues and the Tomorrow of Medical Anthropology	p. 515
Index	p. 533
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