Medical anthropology: contemporary theory and method

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Rev. ed. pt. 1. Theoretical perspectives. The therapeutic process / Thomas J. Csordas and Arthur Kleinman. -- Political economy in medical anthropology / Soheir A. Morsy. -- A critical-interpretive approach in medical anthropology: rituals and routines of discipline and dissent / Margaret Lock and Nancy Scheper-Hughes. -- Culture, emotion, and psychiatric disorder / Janis H. Jenkins. -- Clinically applied anthropology / Noel J. Chrisman and Thomas M. Johnson. -- pt. 2. Medical systems. Ethnomedicine / Arthur J. Rubel and Michael R. Hass. -- Ethnopsychiatry / Charles C. Hughes. -- Ethnopharmacology: the conjunction of medical ethnography and the biology of therapeutic action / Nina L. Etkin. -- Studying biomedicine as a cultural system / Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes. -- pt. 3. Health issues in human populations. Disease, ecology, and human behavior / Peter J. Brown, Marcia C. Inhorn, and Daniel J. Smith. -- Anthropology and studies of human reproduction / Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent. -- Alcohol and drug studies / Linda A. Bennett and Paul W. Cook, Jr. -- Culture, stress, and disease / William W. Dressler. -- Nutrition in medical anthropology / Sara A. Quandt. -- pt. 4. Methods in medical anthropology. Research designs in medical anthropology / Pertti J. Pelto and Gretel H. Pelto ; Epidemiology and medical anthropology / William R. True. -- pt. 5. Policy and advocacy. Bioethics in anthropology: perspectives on culture, medicine, a nd morality / Patricia A. Marshall and Barbara A. Koenig. -- The professionalization of indigenous healers / Murray Last. -- International health: problems and programs in anthropological perspective / Sandra D. Lane and Robert A. Rubinstein.