(eBook PDF) Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology 3rd Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 1629582913
- ISBN-13 : 978-1629582917
- Author: Peter J. Brown, Svea Closser
The editors of the third edition of the seminal textbook Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology bring it completely up to date for both instructors and students. The collection of 49 readings (17 of them new to this edition) offers extensive background description and exposes students to the breadth of theoretical, methodological, and practical perspectives and issues in the field of medical anthropology.
Table 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
8. Applying Medical Anthropology
9. Anthropology and Medical Ethics
10. A Look Back and a Glance Ahead
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