TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baer,Hans A.
AU  - Singer,Merrill
AU  - Susser,Ida
TI  - Medical anthropology and the world system
SN  - 0897898451
AV  - GN296 .B34 2003
U1  - 306.461 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Westport, Conn.
PB  - Praeger
KW  - Political anthropology
N1  - 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
ER  -