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Title

Medical anthropology in ecological perspective / Ann McElroy, Patricia K. Townsend.

Author

McElroy, Ann

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Townsend, Patricia K., 1941-

Description

xiii, 466 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Widespread awareness of emerging infectious diseases and global environmental change makes the ecological perspective of this text relevant to the current times. This book integrates biocultural, environmental, and evolutionary approaches to the study of human health.

Subject

• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Ecology
• Anthropology
• Medical anthropology
• Human beings > Effect of environment on
• Anthropology, Medical

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The ecology of health and disease. Preview: Studying Nepali children: an example of medical anthropology ; Environment, culture, and health ; Profile: Arctic adaptations ; A working model of ecology and health. -- Interdisciplinary research in health problems. Preview: The nature of collaboration ; Bio-environmental data ; Profile: Cannibal mourners ; Clinical data ; Epidemiological data ; Social and cultural data ; Profile: The everyday lives of retarded persons ; Economic, political, and historical data ; Medical anthropology at work ; Theory in medical anthropology. -- Genes, culture and adaptation. Preview: Human diversity and environment ; Dimensions of adaptation ; Adaptation through biological evolution ; Profile: Malaria and agriculture ; Balanced polymorphism ; Evolutionary medicine ; Physiological and developmental adaptation ; Profile: Coca chewing in the high Andes ; Cultural adaptation ; Individual coping mechanisms ; Maladaptive cultural patterns. -- Changing patterns of disease and death. Preview: Culture as environment ; The study of population ; Profile: Infant survival in Papua New Guinea society ; Life and death in hunter-gatherer camps and farming villages ; Paleopathology: the study of disease in prehistory ; Profile: Dry bones: health in Southwestern prehistory ; Life and death in the preindustrial city ; Profile: The Black death ; Life and death in industrial society.
• The ecology and economics of nutrition. Preview: Human foodways and nutritional needs ; Subsistence by hunting and gathering ; Profile: Subsistence ecology of the Ju/'hoan bushmen ; Subsistence by farming ; Profile: Famine in Ethiopia ; Industrial agriculture ; The global epidemic of malnutrition ; Breast or bottle ; The anthropology of food and cooking ; All that goes into the mouth is not food. -- Culture, ecology, and reproduction. Preview: Three birth stories ; Evolutionary comparisons of birth management ; Profile: Stress, social support, and pregnancy ; Fecundity and fertility ; Profile: Pregnancy beliefs and food taboos in Malaysia ; Reproduction and social support systems. --^
• Stress, illness, and healing. Preview: The concept of stress ; Understanding the physiology of stress ; Can stress induce healing? ; Stress and psychiatric disorders ; Profile: Arctic hysteria ; Post-traumatic stress disorder ; Profile: Stress, social support, and health: the Dressler research ; Environmental stressors. -- Health resources in changing cultures. Preview: The story of Ishi ; Change and adaptation ; Models for the study of contact processes ; Culture contact in the Arctic ; Profile: Culture change and Inuit health: two families ; Health care as a system ; Medical pluralism ; Decisions about care ; Profile: Southeast Asian refugees and health care ; Anthropology and AIDS. --^
• Costs and benefits of development. Preview: Spirit possession in a Malaysian factory ; Industrialization and health ; What modernization and development mean ; Evaluating the health effects of agricultural development ; Profile: Irrigation and schistosomiasis ; Strategies for improving health ; Health disparities in developed economics ; Paying the costs of industrial development ; Profile: Hazardous waste and the Mohawks at Akwesasne ; The anthropology of trouble. -- Medical anthropologists at work: meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century. Preview: Violence and terror: the work of forensic anthropologists ; The AIDS pandemic: medical anthropologists in international public health ; Contemporary medicine and its discontents. -- Appendix: Projects in medical anthropology.

ISBN

• 0813340985 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0813338212 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003006626

OCLC

• 51905772
• SCSB-9933109

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library