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Medical anthropology and the world system / Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003Edition: Second editionDescription: x, 419 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0897898451
  • 9780897898454
  • 089789846X
  • 9780897898461
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461 21
LOC classification:
  • GN296 .B34 2003
Contents:
I. What is medical anthropology about? -- 1. Medical anthropology : central concepts and development -- 2. Theoretical perspectives in medical anthropology -- II. The social origins of disease and suffering -- 3. Health and the environment : from foraging societies to the capitalist world system -- 4. Homelessness in the world system -- 5. Legal addictions, part I : demon in a bottle -- 6. Legal addictions, part II : up in smoke -- 7. Illicit drugs : self-medicating the hidden injuries of oppression -- 8. AIDS : a disease of the global system -- 9. Reproduction and inequality -- III. Medical systems in social context -- 10. Medical systems in indigenous and precapitalist state societies -- 11. Biomedical hegemony in the context of medical pluralism -- IV. Toward an equitable and healthy global system -- 12. The pursuit of health as a human right : health praxis and the struggle for a healthy world.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.461 BAE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A263076B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-424) and index.

I. What is medical anthropology about? -- 1. Medical anthropology : central concepts and development -- 2. Theoretical perspectives in medical anthropology -- II. The social origins of disease and suffering -- 3. Health and the environment : from foraging societies to the capitalist world system -- 4. Homelessness in the world system -- 5. Legal addictions, part I : demon in a bottle -- 6. Legal addictions, part II : up in smoke -- 7. Illicit drugs : self-medicating the hidden injuries of oppression -- 8. AIDS : a disease of the global system -- 9. Reproduction and inequality -- III. Medical systems in social context -- 10. Medical systems in indigenous and precapitalist state societies -- 11. Biomedical hegemony in the context of medical pluralism -- IV. Toward an equitable and healthy global system -- 12. The pursuit of health as a human right : health praxis and the struggle for a healthy world.

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