Medical anthropology and the world system : critical perspectives /: critical perspectives. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser.
• Authors: Baer, Hans A, 1944-; Singer, Merrill; Susser, Ida
• Contents: What Is Medical Anthropology About?. Medical anthropology : central concepts and development -- Theoretical perspectives in medical anthropology -- The Social Origins of Disease and Suffering. Health and the environment : from foraging societies to the capitalist world system -- The impact of climate change, environmental crises, and disasters on health -- Poverty, injustice, and health in the world system -- Reproduction, biotechnologies, and inequality -- Social Diseases and Social Suffering. Violence and war -- Legal and illegal drugs : experience, behavior, and society -- AIDS and infectious diseases -- Syndemics and the biosocial nature of health -- Medical Systems in a Social Context. Medical systems in indigenou and precapitalist and early capitalist state societies -- Biomedical hegemony in the context of medical pluralism -- Toward an Equitable and Healthy Global System. Health praxis and the struggle for a healthy, socially just, and environmentally sustainable world system.
• Edition: Third edition
• Publisher Details: New York : Praeger
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (536 pages)
• Subjects: 306.4/61; Medical -- Reference; Medical anthropology; Social medicine; Anthropology, Medical; Social Medicine; Anthropologie médicale; Médecine sociale; Social medicine; Medical anthropology; Medizin; Anthropologie; Ethnomedizin; Weltgesellschaft; Medical -- Research; Medical -- General; Health & personal development
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216116240
• Related ISBNs: 9781440829154
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.