Research Catalog

Title

Anthropology and public health : bridging differences in culture and society / [edited by] Robert A. Hahn, Marcia C. Inhorn.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hahn, Robert A., 1945-
• Inhorn, Marcia C., 1957-

Description

xxi, 730 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

Through 24 case studies from around the world, the volume provides a powerful argument for the imperative of anthropological perspectives, methods, information, and collaboration in the understanding and practice of public health.

Uniform Title

Anthropology in public health.

Subject

• Public health > Anthropological aspects > Developing countries
• Public health > Developing countries
• Ethnology
• Public Health Practice
• Anthropology, Cultural
• Community Health Planning
• Developing Countries
• Health Services, Indigenous
• Ethnology
• Public health
• Public health > Anthropological aspects
• Developing countries

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Anthropology in public health. 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Anthropology of childhood Malaria in Tanzania / Vinay R. Kamat -- Diagnosis and management of asthma in the medical marketplace of India : Implications for efforts to improve global respiratory health / David Van Sickle -- Situating stress : lessons from lay discourses on Diabetes / Nancy E. Schoenberg [and others] -- Understanding pregnancy in a population of inner-city women in New Orleans--results of qualitative research / Carl Kendall [and others] -- Limits of "Heterosexual AIDS" : ethnographic research on tourism and male sexual labor in the Dominican Republic / Mark B. Padilla -- Male infertility and consanguinity in Lebanon : the power of ethnographic epidemiology / Marcia C. Inhorn [and others] -- Structural violence, political violence, and the health costs of civil conflict : a case sudy from Peru / Tom Leatherman and R. Brooke Thomas -- Bridges between mental health care and religious healing in Puerto Rico : the outcomes of an early experiment / Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- Indigenization of illness support groups for Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti / Jeannine Coreil and Gladys Mayard -- Using formative research to explore and address elder health and care in Chiapas, Mexico / Namino Glantz -- Anthropological contributions to the development of culturally appropriate tobacco cessation arograms : a global health priority / Mark Nichter [and others] -- From dtreet tesearch to public health intervention : the Hartford Drug Monitoring Project / Merrill Singer [and others] -- Sexual risk reduction among married women and men in Urban India : an anthropological intervention / Stephen L. Schensul [and others] -- Honorable mutilation? : changing responses to female genital cutting in Sudan / Ellen Gruenbaum -- Making pregnancy safer for women around the world : the example of safe motherhood and maternal death in Guatemala / Nicole S. Berry -- Counting on mothers love : the global polities of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Eastern Africa / Karen Marie Moland and Astrid Blystad -- Brazilian response to AIDS and the pharmaceuticalization of global health / Joao Biehl -- Anthropological and public health perspectives on the global polio eradication initiative in Northern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- "Sanitary makeshifts" and the perpetuation of health stratification in Indonesia / Eric A. Stein -- Global panic, local repercussions : economic and nutritional effects of bird flu in Vietnam / Stacy Lockerbie and D. Ann Herring -- Neoliberal infections and the politics of health : Resurgent Tuberculosis Epidemics in New York City and Lima, Peru / Sandy Smith-Nonini -- Biological citizenship after Chernobyl / Adriana Petryna -- Ethnographic evaluation of Post-Alma Ata Health System Reforms in Mongolia : lessons for addressing health inequities in poor communities / Craig R. Janes -- Bureaucratic aspects of international health programs / George M. Foster.

ISBN

• 9780195374643
• 0195374649

LCCN

2008006682

OCLC

• ocn192042314
• 192042314
• SCSB-1493441

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library