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Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method
by Carolyn F. Sargent, Thomas M. Johnson. 558 pgs.

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A significant update of the 1990 classic state-of-the-art handbook on medical anthropology. With new chapters on AIDS, psychology and emotion, nutrition, and bioethics, the text reflects the changes in medical anthropological theory and practice since the late 1980s. Chapters from the first edition are revised to reflect current trends and to include recent references. This work demonstrates the creative expansion and diversity in the field, amidst efforts to explore the individual sickness experience in the context of local cultures and global political and economic dynamics.

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Illustrations

Introduction

Part I: Theoretical Perspectives

1: The Therapeutic Process

Acknowledgments

2: Political Economy in Medical Anthropology

Conclusion

Notes

3: A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent

4: Culture, Emotion, and Psychiatric Disorder

5 Clinically Applied Anthropology

Part II: Medical Systems

6: Ethnomedicine

Note

Acknowledgments

7: Ethnopsychiatry

8: Ethnopharmacology: The Conjunction of Medical Ethnography and the Biology of T herapeutic Action

9: Studying Biomedicine as a Cultural System

Conclusion

Notes

Part III: Health Issues in Human Populations

10: Disease, Ecology, and Human Behavior

Conclusion: Directions for Future Research

Note

Anthropology and Studies of Human Reproduction

12: Alcohol and Drug Studies

13: Culture, Stress, and Disease

14: Nutrition in Medical Anthropology

Conclusions: Directions for Future Research

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Part IV: Methods in Medical Anthropology

15: Research Designs in Medical Anthropology

Summary and Conclusions

16: Epidemiology and Medical Anthropology

Conclusions: Holism and Epidemiology

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Part V: Policy and Advocacy

17: Bioethics in Anthropology: Perspectives on Culture, Medicine, and Morality

Conclusion: Future Directions in Anthropology and Bioethics

Acknowledgments

Notes

18: The Professionalization of Indigenous Healers

19: International Health: Problems and Programs in Anthropological Perspective

Acknowledgments

Notes

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Medical Anthropology and the World System: A Critical Perspective
by Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, Ida Susser. 277 pgs.

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A critical examination of the field and study of medical anthropology in the world system.

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Preface

Part I What Is Medical Anthropology About?

Chapter 1 Medical Anthropology: Central Concepts and Development

Chapter 2 Theoretical Perspectives in Medical Anthropology

Part II The Social Origins of Disease and Suffering

Chapter 3 Health and the Environment: From Foraging Societies to the Capitalist World System

Chapter 4 Homelessness in the World System

Chapter 5 Legal Addictions, Part I: Demon in a Bottle

Chapter 6 Legal Addictions, Part II: Up in Smoke

Chapter 7 Illicit Drugs: Self-Medicating the Hidden Injuries of Oppression

Chapter 8 AIDS: A Disease of the Global System

Part III Medical Systems in Social Context

Chapter 9 Medical Systems in Indigenous and Precapitalist State Societies

Chapter 10 Biomedical Hegemony in the Context of Medical Pluralism

Part IV Toward an Equitable and Healthy Global System

Chapter 11 The Pursuit of Health as a Human Right: Health Praxis and the Struggle for a Healthy World

Bibliography

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Adaptation in Cultural Evolution: An Approach to Medical Anthropology
by Alexander Alland Jr. 203 pgs.

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Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Evolutionary Theory

Chapter 3 the Ecology of Human Disease

Chapter 4 Adaptation to Disease

Chapter 5 Native Medical Practice Diagnostics

Chapter 6 Native Medical Systems

Chapter 7 Medical Systems Under Acculturation

Summary

Chapter 8 Conclusion

Bibliography

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The Anthropology of Medicine: From Culture to Method
by Lola C. Romanucci-Ross, Daniel E. Moerman, Laurence R. Tancredi. 400 pgs.

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This long-awaited revision of what has now become the classic text in medical anthropology contains a wealth of new material on subjects as diverse as aging, creativity, and ideology. Originally cited in American Anthropologist as "must reading for all medical anthropologists, physicians, advanced medical anthropology students and advanced medical students," this new edition should prove twice as valuable. It is both a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of medical anthropology and a state-of-the-art reference work. The authors bring new perspectives to our understanding of both Western and non-Western medicine, from the biochemical and physiological aspects of health care in preindustrialized cultures to cultural and ideological factors inherent in past and present Western medical care. New chapters focus on ethnobotany, placebo and pain, shamanism, and psychiatry.

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Preface: the Cultural Context of Medicine and the Biohuman Paradigm

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Part I: Medical Systems and the Uses of Choice

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1: Creativity in Illness: Methodological Linkages to the Logic and Language of Science in Folk Pursuit of Health in Central Italy

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2: Aztec and European Medicine in the New World, 1521-1600

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3: Phantoms and Physicians: Social Change Through Medical Pluralism

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Part II: Empirical Analyses of Non-Western Medical Practices and Medical Ecology

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4: Poisoned Apples and Honeysuckles: the Medicinal Plants of Native America

Acknowledgments

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5: Herbal and Symbolic Forms of Treatment in the Medicine of the Lowland Mixe (oaxaca, Mexico)

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6: The Evolution of Human Nutrition

Acknowledgments

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7: Zoonoses and the Origins of Old and New World Viral Diseases: New Perspectives

Appendix: Short Descriptions of Animal Virus Families

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8: Malaria, Medicine, and Meals: A Biobehavioral Perspective

Acknowledgments

Notes

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Part III: Embodied Mind: Metaphors of Pain, Placebo, and Symbolic Healing

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9: The Impassioned Knowledge of the Shaman

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10: Anarchy, Abjection, and Absurdity: A Case of Metaphoric Medicine Among the Tabwa of Zaire

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11: Physiology and Symbols: the Anthropological Implications of the Placebo Effect

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12: Narratives of Chronic Pain

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13: The Effect of Ethnicity on Prescriptions for Patient Controlled Analgesia for Post-Operative Pain

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Part IV: Modern Medical Inquiry and Culture Change

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14: Stress and Its Management: the Cultural Construction of an Illness and Its Treatment

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15: Science of the Mind in Contexts of A Culture

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16: The "New Psychiatry": from Ideology to Cultural Error

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17: The Aging: Legal and Ethical Personhood in Culture Change

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18: The Extraneous Factor in Western Medicine

Acknowledgments

Notes

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19: "Medical Anthropology": Convergence of Mind and Experience in the Anthropological Imagination

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New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie
by Margaret Lock, Mark Nichter. 320 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Governing Bodies in New Order Indonesia

Chapter 3: Too Bold, Too Hot

Chapter 4: The Social Relations of Therapy Management

Chapter 5: Making Sense Out of Modernity

Chapter 6: A Return to Scientific Racism in Medical Social Sciences

Chapter 7: “we Five, Our Twenty-Five”

Chapter 8: Establishing Proof

Chapter 9: Notes on the Evolution of Evolutionary Psychiatry

Chapter 10: Utopias of Health Eugenics, and Germline Engineering

Chapter 11: Killing and Healing Revisited

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Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective
by Ann McElroy, Patricia K. Townsend. 434 pgs.

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Tables and Figures

Preface to the Third Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Ecology of Health and Disease

Resources

Chapter 2: Interdisciplinary Research in Health Problems

Conclusions

Chapter 3: Genes, Culture, and Adaptation

Chapter 4: Changing Patterns of Birth and Death

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Chapter 5: The Ecology and Economics of Nutrition

Conclusions

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Chapter 7: Stress, Illness, and Healing

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Chapter 8: Health Resources in Changing Cultures

Conclusions

Chapter 9: Costs and Benefits of Development

Resources

Appendix: Projects in Medical Anthropology

References Cited

About the Book and Authors

Index
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Theories of Illness: A World Survey
by George Peter Murdock. 130 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

I: Primitive Medicine

II: Theories of Natural Causation

III: Theories of Supernatural Causation

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IV: Behavioral Science And The Comparative Ethnographic Method

V: Regional Analysis

VI: Man's Ideational Environment

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VII: Witchcraft Theories And the Circum-Mediterranean

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VIII: The Antithesis of Sorcery And Witchcraft Theories

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IX: Incidence of Spirit Aggression Theories

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X: Aggression and Its Projection

XI: The Pastoral Relationship

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XII: Sin, Sex, and Sickness

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Appendix: The Societies Surveyed: Identification and Bibliography

Index
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Medical Anthropology and African American Health
by Eric J. Bailey. 255 pgs.

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The field of medical anthropology is a discipline that incorporates the perspective of a wide range of approaches--from anthropologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, physicians, nurses, public health administrators, biologists, and many others, including the general public--to health care. This approach places culture and cultural relativism at the forefront and center of every model, and examines the ethics and fairness of health care issues associated with the African American population.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I Medical Anthropology, Culture and Ethnic Populations Health Issues

Chapter I Medical Anthropology And Health Care

Chapter 2 Ethnic Populations in The United States: Health Beliefs And Treatment Actions

Part II African American Health Care

Chapter 3 African American Health Care: A Cultural Relativistic Perspective

Chapter 4 African American Health Care: A Health Data and Current Research Studies Perspective

Chapter 5 African American Alternative Medical Practices

Part III How To Do Medical Anthropological Fieldwork

Chapter 6 Strategies for Applied Medical Anthropology Health Care Research

Part IV Medical Anthropology Case Studies: Clinic, Community and Public Health Settings

Chapter 7 Fieldwork in A Cardiopulmonary Clinic

Chapter 8 Psychosociocultural Stress And African American Women

Chapter 9 Fieldwork in a Detroit Hospital

Chapter 10 A Needs Assessment of a Prenatal Intervention Program

Chapter 11 Culturally Competent Health Screening Programs

Chapter 12 The Diabetic Patient's Adaptation To Outpatient Clinic

Chapter 13 Hiv/Aids Counseling and The African American Community

Chapter 14 A Community's Perception Of the Health Care System: Issues of Equity

Part V Culture and Health: The Future of African American Health Care Research

Chapter 15 Cultural Health Care Strategies For African Americans

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Plague Doctors: Responding to the AIDS Epidemic in France and America
by Jamie L. Feldman. 278 pgs.

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Plague Doctors highlights culturally based differences between French and American medicine, not only in health care delivery, but in the way each system constructs the interaction between disease and the human body. This work challenges the assumption that biomedicine is uniform across the western world. The author, a medical doctor and anthropologist, provides an ethnographic look into the daily experiences of physicians and researchers, examining how members of the French and American medical communities construct their models of AIDS through discourse and practice. The book is based on a comparative study of two AIDS clinics, one in Chicago and the other in Paris. Participant observation conducted at the clinics and interviews with physicians and researchers outside the sites yielded important insights into the world of AIDS medicine.

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

NOTES

Part I: THEORY, METHOD, AND CONTEXT

2: Cultural Constructions--Choosing among Stories

NOTES

3: Surveying the Contextual Ground

NOTES

Part II: CONSTRUCTING AIDS

4: The Building Blocks of AIDS

5: The Stories of AIDS--Natural History and Staging

NOTES

6: Treatment

NOTES

7: Paradoxes and Patients' Stories

Conclusion

NOTES

Part III: AIDS AS CONSTRUCTOR

8: AIDS Bodies, AIDS Patients

9: Health Care and Medical Practice

NOTES

10: Good Science, Bad Science

11: Identity and the AIDS Doctor

Conclusion

NOTES

Part IV: MEDICAL DIFFERENCES, DIFFERENT MEDICINES

12: French and American Differences

NOTES

13: The Meanings of AIDS-- Conclusions

Appendix: Statistical Description of Informants

Glossary

Bibliography

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AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean
by George C. Bond, John Kreniske, Ida Susser, Joan Vincent. 234 pgs.

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This book offers detailed ethnographic studies from Africa & the Caribbean to explain AIDS in a global & comparative third-world context. The essays move beyond medical or epidemiological models, explaining the epidemic in its economic, social, political, & historic contexts.

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Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part One: Introduction

1: The Anthropology of Aids in Africa and the Caribbean

2: Sociocultural Aspects of Aids in Africa: Occupational and Gender Issues

Notes

Part Two: Case Studies

3: Aids in the Dominican Republic: Anthropological Reflections on the Social Nature of Disease

Notes

4: Community Organizing Around Hiv Prevention in Rural Puerto Rico

Notes

5: Aids Prevention, Treatment, and Care in Cuba

6: Aids in Uganda: the First Decade

Notes

7: Community Based Organizations in Uganda: a Youth Initiative

Notes

8: Female Genital Health and the Risk of Hiv Transmission

9: The Point of View: Perspectives on Aids in Uganda

Part Three: Policy Issues

10: The Hiv Epidemic as a Development Issue

11: Placing Women at the Center of Analysis

12: Aids from Africa: a Case of Racism Vs. Science?

13: U.S. Aid to Aids in Africa

Notes

Partfour: Conclusion

14: Aids: Body, Mind, and History

References

About the Book

About the Editors and Contributors

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Anthropology and Primary Health Care
by Jeannine Coreil, J. Dennis Mull. 328 pgs.

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Tables and Figures

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

I Overview and Historical Background

1: The Evolution of Anthropology in International Health

Acknowledgements

Notes

References

2: The Primary Health Care Dialectic: History, Rhetoric, and Reality

Acknowledgements

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II: Critical Perspectives

3: Is Integration of Traditional and Western Medicine Really Possible?

Notes

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4: The Role of Anthropologists in Primary Health Care: Reconciling Professional and Community Interests

Notes

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5: Technology and the Social Distribution of Knowledge: Issues for Primary Health Care in Developing Countries

Acknowledgements

Notes

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III: Extending Primary Health Care into the Community

6: Maori Community Health Workers: a Mixed Reception in New Zealand

Acknowledgements

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7: Compulsory Medical Service and Primary Health Care: a Mexican Case Study

Acknowledgements

Notes

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8: Using Anthropological Techniques in Program Design: Successful Nutrition Education in Indonesia

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IV: Ethnomedical Models

9: Public Health and the Domestic Domain: Lessons from Anthropological Research on Diarrheal Diseases

Notes

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10: Vaccinations in South Asia: False Expectations and Commanding Metaphors

Notes

Acknowledgements

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11: Folk Models of Hypertension Among Black Women: Problems in Illness Management

Notes

Acknowledgements

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V: Issues and Methods in Applied Research

12: Applied Anthropological Research Methods: Diarrhea Studies as an Example

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13: Anthropology, Health Education, and the Evolution of Community Control in Primary Health Care

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Notes

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14: The Anthropologist and Primary Health Care

Acknowledgements

Notes

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Disease in Populations in Transition: Anthropological and Epidemiological Perspectives
by Alan C. Swedlund, George J. Armelagos. 392 pgs.

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Societies in transition are often faced with new settings and/or new diseases that require a response in order for the affected group to thrive or survive. A lack of effective response by a transitional population to a new pathogen can lead to the group's disintegration. In a broad selection of 19 essays by distinguished researchers, the epidemiology and health status of prehistoric, historical, and present day populations in transition are thoroughly explored. Different models--biomedical, ethnomedical, ecological, and politicoeconomic--are used to illustrate the effects of transition on the health of human populations throughout the world.

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Preface

Introduction

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I Genetic and Evolutionary Perspectives

1: Genetics and Change

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2: Infectious Disease and Natural Selection in Human Populations: A Critical Reexamination

3: The Detection of Selective Differences in Populations

4: Infectious Disease and Evolution of Human Populations: The Example of South American Forest Tribes

5: Diabetes in Amerindian Populations: The Dogrib Studies

6: Transitional Diabetes and Gallstones in Amerindian Peoples: Genes or Environment?

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Ii Infectious Disease and Nutrition in Temporal Perspective

7: Health and Disease in Prehistoric Populations in Transition

8: Old and New Transitions and Nutrition in Mexico

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9: Infant Mortality in Massachusetts and the United States in the Nineteenth Century

9: Infant Mortality in Massachusetts and the United States in the Nineteenth Century

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10: Historical Epidemiology of Smallpox in Kitee, Finland

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11: Parasitic Load in South American Tribal Populations

12: Mortality and Morbidity Consequences of Variation in Early Child Growth

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Iii Social Epidemiology

13: Cultural Evolution, Parental Care, and Mortality

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14: Assessing the Impact of Environmental Change, with Special Reference to the Role of Urinary Hormones

15: Social Support and Mortality in Post-Transition Populations

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16: The Ecology of Kuru

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17: Changing Patterns of Disease in India with Special Reference to Childhood Mortality

18: Agricultural Resources, Community Development, and Early Childhood Mortality in Bangladesh

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19: The Education of Women and the Mortality of Children in Bangladesh

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Conclusion

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Narrative and Experience: Illness in the Context of an Ethnographic Interview, in The Oral History Review
by Marta Crivos. 3 pgs.

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Cultural Meaning, Explanations of Illness, and the Development of Comparative Frameworks, in Ethnology
by Linda C. Garro. 1 pgs.

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Culturally Specific Health Care Model for Ensuring Health Care Use by Rural, Ethnically Diverse Families Affected by HIV/AIDS, in Health and Social Work
by Anamaria Goicoechea-Balbona. 9 pgs.

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Sport, Professionalism, and Pain: Ethnographies of Injury and Risk
by P. David Howe. 223 pgs.

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Are pain and injury managed appropriately in the environment of commercial sport? Is sports medicine a tool to empower or to disempower athletes? This book considers these and other pertinent concerns as it questions whether, in the world of modern sport, it is the participants themselves or the sport's administrators who exert more control over athletes' well being. It is asserted that, because of the distinctive nature of sport, the power to transform medical practice and application of sports medicine lies not with physicians but within the practices of sport itself. Sport, Professionalism and Pain bridges a perceived space in the literature between medical anthropology, medical sociology and sport studies, examining issues such as: * the relationship between sports medicine, the body and culture * the power struggle between sport administrators and participants * the historical transformation of sports medicine.

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Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: The Cultural Nexus

Chapter 1: Investigating Sports Medicine

Chapter 2: Amateur Pastime to Professional Spectacle

Chapter 3: Sporting Bodies

Chapter 4: Pain and Injury

Chapter 5: The Importance of Injury in the Commercialised World of Sport

Chapter 6: Risk Culture as a 'Product'

Chapter 7: Distinctive Community

Chapter 8: Elite Distance Runners

Chapter 9: Bodily Dysfunction

Conclusion

Appendix I: Changes in the Laws of Rugby Union

Appendix II: Changes in the Laws of Rugby Union

Notes

Bibliography

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