Medical anthropology in ecological perspective /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McElroy, Ann
Other Authors: Townsend, Patricia K., 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, [2004]
Edition:4th ed.
Subjects:

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505 0 |a The ecology of health and disease. Preview: Studying Nepali children: an example of medical anthropology ; Environment, culture, and health ; Profile: Arctic adaptations ; A working model of ecology and health. -- Interdisciplinary research in health problems. Preview: The nature of collaboration ; Bio-environmental data ; Profile: Cannibal mourners ; Clinical data ; Epidemiological data ; Social and cultural data ; Profile: The everyday lives of retarded persons ; Economic, political, and historical data ; Medical anthropology at work ; Theory in medical anthropology. -- Genes, culture and adaptation. Preview: Human diversity and environment ; Dimensions of adaptation ; Adaptation through biological evolution ; Profile: Malaria and agriculture ; Balanced polymorphism ; Evolutionary medicine ; Physiological and developmental adaptation ; Profile: Coca chewing in the high Andes ; Cultural adaptation ; Individual coping mechanisms ; Maladaptive cultural patterns. -- Changing patterns of disease and death. Preview: Culture as environment ; The study of population ; Profile: Infant survival in Papua New Guinea society ; Life and death in hunter-gatherer camps and farming villages ; Paleopathology: the study of disease in prehistory ; Profile: Dry bones: health in Southwestern prehistory ; Life and death in the preindustrial city ; Profile: The Black death ; Life and death in industrial society. 
505 0 |a The ecology and economics of nutrition. Preview: Human foodways and nutritional needs ; Subsistence by hunting and gathering ; Profile: Subsistence ecology of the Ju/'hoan bushmen ; Subsistence by farming ; Profile: Famine in Ethiopia ; Industrial agriculture ; The global epidemic of malnutrition ; Breast or bottle ; The anthropology of food and cooking ; All that goes into the mouth is not food. -- Culture, ecology, and reproduction. Preview: Three birth stories ; Evolutionary comparisons of birth management ; Profile: Stress, social support, and pregnancy ; Fecundity and fertility ; Profile: Pregnancy beliefs and food taboos in Malaysia ; Reproduction and social support systems. -- Stress, illness, and healing. Preview: The concept of stress ; Understanding the physiology of stress ; Can stress induce healing? ; Stress and psychiatric disorders ; Profile: Arctic hysteria ; Post-traumatic stress disorder ; Profile: Stress, social support, and health: the Dressler research ; Environmental stressors. -- Health resources in changing cultures. Preview: The story of Ishi ; Change and adaptation ; Models for the study of contact processes ; Culture contact in the Arctic ; Profile: Culture change and Inuit health: two families ; Health care as a system ; Medical pluralism ; Decisions about care ; Profile: Southeast Asian refugees and health care ; Anthropology and AIDS. -- Costs and benefits of development. Preview: Spirit possession in a Malaysian factory ; Industrialization and health ; What modernization and development mean ; Evaluating the health effects of agricultural development ; Profile: Irrigation and schistosomiasis ; Strategies for improving health ; Health disparities in developed economics ; Paying the costs of industrial development ; Profile: Hazardous waste and the Mohawks at Akwesasne ; The anthropology of trouble. -- Medical anthropologists at work: meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century. Preview: Violence and terror: the work of forensic anthropologists ; The AIDS pandemic: medical anthropologists in international public health ; Contemporary medicine and its discontents. -- Appendix: Projects in medical anthropology. 
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650 2 2 |a Cross-Cultural Comparison. 
650 2 2 |a Ecology. 
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650 6 |a Homme  |x Influence de l'environnement. 
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