| Contents |
1. What's so cultural about disease? -- 2. Anthropological questions and methods in the study of sickness and healing -- 3. Recognizing biological, social, and cultural interconnections: evolutionary and ecological perspectives on a cholera epidemic -- 4. Expanding the vision of medical anthropology : critical and interpretive views of the cholera epidemic -- 5. The global petri dish -- 6. Healers and the healing professions -- 7. Drugs : a fieldwork encounter with drugs -- 8. Applying medical anthropology -- 9. Anthropology and medical ethics -- 10. A look back and a glance ahead. |
| Summary |
This text provides a concise introduction to the field of medical anthropology. It presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence. Now in its fourth edition, Exploring Medical Anthropology provides a concise and engaging introduction to medical anthropology. It presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence. Concrete examples and the author's personal research experiences are utilized to explain some of the discipline's most important insights, such as that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of disease and that medical anthropology can help to alleviate human suffering. The text has been thoroughly updated for the fourth edition, including fresh case studies and a new chapter on drugs. It contains a range of pedagogical features to support teaching and learning, including images, text boxes, a glossary, and suggested further reading. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). |
| Terms of use | Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 3, 2017). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Joralemon, Donald. Exploring medical anthropology. Fourth edition. Oxfordshire, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, ©2017 xii, 155 pages 9781138201873 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781138201873 |
| ISBN | 1138201871 |
| ISBN | 9781138201866 |
| ISBN | 1138201863 |
| ISBN | 9781315470610 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 1315470616 |
| ISBN | 9781315470603 (Proquest Ebook Central) |
| ISBN | 1315470608 |
| ISBN | 9781315470597 |
| ISBN | 1315470594 |
| Stock number | 4825203 Proquest Ebook Central |
