Medical anthropology and the world system /
Baer, Hans A., 1944-
Medical anthropology and the world system / Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser. - Second edition. - x, 419 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-424) and index.
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 -- Homelessness in the world system -- Legal addictions, part I : demon in a bottle -- Legal addictions, part II : up in smoke -- Illicit drugs : self-medicating the hidden injuries of oppression -- AIDS : a disease of the global system -- Reproduction and inequality -- Medical systems in social context -- Medical systems in indigenous and precapitalist state societies -- Biomedical hegemony in the context of medical pluralism -- Toward an equitable and healthy global system -- The pursuit of health as a human right : health praxis and the struggle for a healthy world. I. 1. 2. II. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. III. 10. 11. IV. 12.
0897898451 9780897898454 089789846X 9780897898461
2003052887
Political anthropology
GN296 / .B34 2003
306.461
Medical anthropology and the world system / Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser. - Second edition. - x, 419 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-424) and index.
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 -- Homelessness in the world system -- Legal addictions, part I : demon in a bottle -- Legal addictions, part II : up in smoke -- Illicit drugs : self-medicating the hidden injuries of oppression -- AIDS : a disease of the global system -- Reproduction and inequality -- Medical systems in social context -- Medical systems in indigenous and precapitalist state societies -- Biomedical hegemony in the context of medical pluralism -- Toward an equitable and healthy global system -- The pursuit of health as a human right : health praxis and the struggle for a healthy world. I. 1. 2. II. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. III. 10. 11. IV. 12.
0897898451 9780897898454 089789846X 9780897898461
2003052887
Political anthropology
GN296 / .B34 2003
306.461