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Medical anthropology

Title: Medical anthropology / edited by Cecil G. Helman.
Publication: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.

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Additional Authors

Helman, Cecil, 1944-2009.

Description

xxix, 549 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

This volume includes key papers which outline the history, concepts, research findings and recent controversies in medical anthropology. Among the topics covered are transcultural psychiatry, food and nutrition, anthropology of the body, alcohol and drug use, and traditional healers.

Series Statement

The international library of essays in anthropology

Uniform Title

International library of essays in anthropology

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Chapter 1 ¿ Introduction -- Part I Basic Concepts -- Food & Nutrition -- Chapter 2 -- Chowdhury, A.M., Helman, C. & Greenhalgh, T. (2000) Food beliefs and practices among British Bangladeshis with diabetes: implications for health education. Anthropology and Medicine 7, No. 2, 209-226. -- Chapter 3 -- Dettwyler, K.A. (1992) The biocultural approach to nutritional anthropology: case studies of malnutrition in Mali. Medical Anthropology, 15 (1), 17-39. -- Alcohol and drug use -- Chapter 4 -- Bourgois, P. (1989) Crack in Spanish Harlem. Anthropology Today 5 (4), 6-11. -- Chapter 5 -- Hunt, G. and Satterlee, S. (1986). Cohesion and division: drinking in an English village. MAN 21, 521¿537. -- Transcultural psychiatry -- Chapter 6 -- Patel, V. (2001) Cultural factors and international epidemiology. British Medical Bulletin 57, 33-45. -- Chapter 7 -- Good, B. (1977). The heart of what¿s the matter: the semantics of illness in Iran. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 1, 25¿58. -- Chapter 8 -- Helman, C.G. (1987) Heart Disease and the Cultural Construction of Time: The Type A Behaviour Pattern as a Western Culture Bound Syndrome, Social Science and Medicine 25, 969 979 -- Chapter 9 -- Kirmayer, L.J. and Minas, H. (2000) The future of cultural psychiatry: An international perspective. Can J Psychiatry 45, 438-446 -- Chapter 10 -- Eisenbruch, M. (1988) The mental health of refugee children and their cultural development. International Migration Review 22, 282-300. -- Chapter 11 -- Tamura, T. & Lau, A. (1992) Connectedness versus separateness: Applicability of family therapy to Japanese families. Family Process, 312 (4), 319-340. -- Medical pluralism & traditional healers -- Chapter 12 -- Simon, C. (1991). Innovative medicine ¿ a case study of a modern healer. South African Medical Journal 79, 677¿8. -- Chapter 13 -- Greenwood, B. (1981). Cold or spirits? Choice and ambiguity in Morocco¿s pluralistic medical system. Social Science and Medicine 15B, 219¿35. -- Languages of distress -- Chapter 14 -- Pugh, J. F. (1991). The semantics of pain in Indian culture and medicine. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 15, 19¿43. -- Chapter 15 -- Ots, T. (1990). The angry liver, the anxious heart and the melancholy spleen. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 14, 21¿58 -- Rituals of childbirth and death -- Chapter 15 -- Davis-Floyd, R. E. (1987). The technological model of birth. Journal of American Folklore 100, 479¿95. -- Chapter 16 -- Suzuki, H. (2003) McFunerals: The transition of Japanese Funerary services. Asian Anthropology 2, 49-78. -- Part II APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY: INTERNATIONAL HEALTH -- What is ¿world health¿? -- Chapter 16 -- Keane, C. (1998) Globality and the construction of World Health. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12 (2), 226-240 -- Family planning -- Chapter 17 -- Warwick, D. P. (1988). Culture and the management of family planning programs. Studies in Family Planning 19, 1¿18. -- Helman, C.G. (2007) Indigenous forms of fertility control. In: Culture, Health and Illness (5th edn.). Hodder Arnold, -- Diarrhoeal diseases -- Chapter 18 -- Weiss, M. G. (1988). Cultural models of diarrhoeal illness: conceptual framework and review. Social Science & Medicine 27, 5¿16. -- HIV and AIDS -- Chapter 19 -- Lyttleton, C. (1994). Knowledge and meaning: the AIDS education campaign in rural northeast Thailand. Social Science & Medicine 38, 135¿46. -- Chapter 20 -- Heald, S. (2002) It¿s never as easy as ABC: Understandings of AIDS in Botswana. African Journal of AIDS Research 1, 1-10. -- Malaria -- Chapter 21 -- Muela, S. H., Ribera, J. M. and Tanner, M. (1998). Fake malaria and hidden parasites ¿ the ambiguity of malaria. Anthropology and Medicine 5(1), 43¿61. -- Infectious diseases -- Chapter 22 -- Nichter, M. (1987) Kyasanur Forest Disease: An ethnography of a disease of development. Medical Anthropology Quarterly (New Series) 1, 406-23. -- Part Iii Contemporary Issues: The Body -- Chapter 23 -- Kaufman, S.R. and Morgan, L.M. (2005) The anthropology of the beginnings and ends of life. Annual Reviews of Anthropology 34, 317-341. -- Chapter 24 -- Rheinberger, J.J. (2000) Beyond nature and culture: modes of reasoning in the age of molecular biology and medicine. In: Living and Working With the New Medical Technologies (M. Lock, A. Young, and A. Cambrosio, eds.), pp. 19-30. Cambridge University Press -- Chapter 25 -- Sandelowski, M. (2002) Visible human, vanishing bodies, and virtual nursing: Complications of life, presence, place, and identity. Adv. Nurs. Sci. 24 (3), 58-70 -- Chapter 26 -- Simpson, B. (2004) Impossible gifts: bodies, Buddhism and bioethics in contemporary Sri Lanka. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 10, 839-859. -- Index.

ISBN

9780754626558
0754626555

LCCN

2007037667

OCLC

ocn173243761
173243761
SCSB-1498363

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library