142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
Now in its fifth 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 authors’ personal research experiences are utilized to explain some of the discipline’s most important insights, such as the... Read more
1. What’s So Cultural about Health, Illness, and Disease?
2. Anthropological Questions and Methods in the Study of Health and Healing
3. Recognizing Biological, Social, and Cultural Interconnections
4. Anthropological Contributions to Pandemic Studies
5. Healers and the Healing Professions
6. Biomedicine as Ethnomedicine
7. Medical Anthropology and the Global Drug Economy
8. Applying Medical Anthropology
9. Anthropology and Medical Ethics
Biography
Donald Joralemon is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Smith College, USA.
Mary B. Sundal is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Washburn University, USA.
