* Preface * 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 Resources * 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 Conclusions Resources * 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 Conclusions Resources * Changing Patterns of Disease and Death Preview Culture As Environment The Study of Population Profile: Infant Survival in a 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 Conclusions Resources * 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 Conclusions Resources * 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 Conclusions Resources * 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 Alcohol Abuse Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Profile: Stress, Social Support, and Health: The Dressler Research Environmental Stressors Conclusions Resources * 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 Conclusions Resources * Costs and Benefits of Development Preview 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 Economies Paying the Costs of Industrial Development Profile: Hazardous Waste and the Mohawks at Akwesasne The Anthropology of Trouble Conclusions Resources * 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 Conclusions Resources * Appendix: Projects in Medical Anthropology * References Cited * Index
