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Medical Anthropology Andrea S. Wiley

Medical Anthropology By Andrea S. Wiley

Medical Anthropology by Andrea S. Wiley

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Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach by Andrea S. Wiley

An ideal core text for introductory courses, Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach, Second Edition, offers an accessible and contemporary overview of this rapidly expanding field. For each health issue examined in the text, the authors first present basic biological information on specific conditions and then expand their analysis to include evolutionary, historical, and cross-cultural perspectives on how these issues are understood. Medical Anthropology considers how a biocultural approach can be applied to more effective prevention and treatment efforts and underscores medical anthropology's potential to improve health around the world.

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Medical Anthropology makes it evident that the human illness experience necessitates an understanding from a non-biological perspective, and reading it will change the way many students view human health and illness.>--Helen Cho, Davidson College Medical Anthropology is very accessible and relevant and stands as an effective tool for demonstrating the interaction of culture, health, and the environment.--Jonathan Maupin, Vanderbilt University

Table of Contents

Preface A Biocultural Approach to Medical Anthropology What Is Distinctive about This Text What's new in this edition Outline of the Book Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction What is Anthropology? The Development of Medical Anthropology What is Medical Anthropology? The Culture Concept A Biocultural Perspective Looking Ahead Chapter 2: Anthropological Perspectives on Health and Disease Definitions of Health Disease Illness Anthropologist in Action: Arthur Kleinman Sickness Health, Ethics, and Cultural Relativism The Locus of Health: The Body and Society Biological/Medical Normalcy Evolutionary Perspectives on Health Adaptability Behavioral Adaptability Cultural Approaches in Medical Anthropology Political Economy of Health Ethnomedical Systems Interpretive Approaches to Illness and Suffering Applied Medical Anthropology Epidemiology Conclusion Chapter 3: Healers and Healing Culture and Healing Systems Living Longer with Cystic Fibrosis Recruitment: How Healers Become Healers Alternative and Complementary Medicines Acupuncture Chiropractic Navajo Medicine When Biomedicine Is Alternative Medicine Alternative Biomedicines Death as a Biocultural Concept Harnessing the Power of the Placebo Placebo and Nocebo Conclusion Chapter 4: Diet and Nutrition in Health and Disease Fundamentals of Nutrition How are Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) constructed? Digestive Physiology An Evolutionary Approach to Nutrition Scurvy in Evolutionary Perspective Ascertaining Diet and Nutritional Status from Ancient Bones Cavities C3 versus C4 in Bones Anthropologist in Action: Ellen Messer Nutrition and Chronic Diseases Obesity Diabetes Sugar and High-Fructose Corn Syrup in Biocultural Perspective Lactose Intolerance Celiac Disease Conclusion Chapter 5: Growth and Development Life History Theory Gestation: The First 40 Weeks of Growth and Development Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Birth Weight in the Mountains Infancy Childhood Small but Healthy? Anthropologist in Action: Gretel Pelto Is Bigger Better? Does Milk Make Children Grow? Puberty and the Onset of Adolescence Teenage Pregnancy in the United States Sex, Gender, Growth, and Health Environmental Toxins and Growth Conclusion Chapter 6: Reproductive Health in Biocultural Context Medicalization of Women's Health and Reproductive Health Menstruation Oral Contraceptives and Biological Normalcy Premenstrual Syndrome Determinants of Fertility Infertility Falling Sperm Counts: Environmental Causes of Male Reproductive Health Problems The Medicalization of Male Sexual Dysfunction Female Genital Cutting Anthropologist in Action: Ellen Gruenbaum Pregnancy Humoral Medicine: Concepts of Hot and Cold Birth Mothering Cosleeping and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Menopause Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer Risk Conclusion Chapter 7: Aging The Aging Body Physiological Theories of Aging Somatic Mutations Free Radicals Wear and Degeneration Evolutionary Theories of Aging The Aging Brain Alzheimer Disease, Genes, and Evolution Extending Life? Caloric Restriction and an Okinawa Case Study Health, Illness, and the Cultural Construction of Aging Conclusion Chapter 8: Infectious Diseases: Pathogens, Hosts, and Evolutionary Interplay Koch's Postulates Taxonomy of Infectious Disease Viruses Bacteria Protozoa Fungi Worms Prions How Pathogens Spread Human Defenses against Pathogens To Treat or Not to Treat The Immune Response: A Brief Overview Vaccination: How Does It Work? The Language of Immunity Human-Pathogen Co-Evolution Malaria: a post-agricultural disease Evolutionary changes in pathogens Antibiotic Resistance Variation in Pathogen Virulence Allergies and Asthma: Relationship to Infectious Disease Exposure? The Hygiene Hypothesis The Helminth Hypothesis Anthropologist in Action: David Van Sickle and managing asthma Conclusion Chapter 9: Globalization, Poverty, and Infectious Disease Emergent and Resurgent Diseases Social Transformations, Colonialism, and Globalizing Infections Smallpox Colonization in the Tropics Colonialism's Health Legacy Climate Change and Emerging/Resurging Diseases Cholera Genetic Adaptation to Cholera Dams and Infectious Disease Tuberculosis: Emerging and Resurging HIV/AIDS: A New Disease Bushmeat Hunting and the Emergence of Human Diseases Anthropologist in Action: Paul Farmer and HIV in Haiti Conclusion Chapter 10: Stress, Social Inequality, and Race and Ethnicity: Implications for Health Disparities Biology of the Stress Response The Nervous System Stress Response The Hormonal Stress Response Why Is Stress Different for Humans? Stress and Biological Normalcy Stress and Health Cardiovascular Disease Immune Function Medical Anthropologist in Action: Nancy Schoenberg Child Growth Inequality, Stress, and Health Relative Status Social Cohesion Social Support Race and Ethnicity and Health in the United States BiDil and Racial Medicine in the United States Conclusion Chapter 11: Mental Health and Illness The Medical Model in Biocultural Context Culture-Bound Syndromes A French Culture-Bound Syndrome Eating Disorders ADHD and Culture Mood Disorders Depression Bipolar Disorder and Creativity The Evolution of Substance Use and Abuse Schizophrenia An Ethnography of Futility Conclusion Epilogue: The Relevance of Medical Anthropology What Can I Do Next if I Am Interested in Medical Anthropology? Graduate Programs in Anthropology Public Health Programs Medical Schools and Clinical Health Professions Work in Governmental and Nongovernmental Health Agencies References

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CIN0199797080A
9780199797080
0199797080
Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach by Andrea S. Wiley
Andrea S. Wiley
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Oxford University Press Inc
20120629
448
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