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Titre(s) : A companion to medical anthropology [Texte imprimé] / edited by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson, César E. Abadía-Barrero
Édition : Second edition
Publication : Hoboken (N.J.) : John Wiley & Sons Ltd., copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xviii-470 p.) : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection : Wiley Blackwell companions to anthropology
Lien à la collection : Blackwell companions to anthropology
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Medical Anthropology is a "baby boomer" of sorts. It came into being alongside the
unprecedented interest in the health and wellbeing of Third World peoples in the aftermath
of WW II when the world was full of the hope and possibility that science, in this
case biomedicine, could alleviate human suffering due to infectious disease and malnutrition,
and then help eliminate or control many of the world's major health problems. Many
anthropologists of that era worked with the international health community (WHO, USAID,
UNICEF, etc.) to bring biomedicine to the world. The presumption guiding this effort
was that shown the effectiveness of biomedicine and modern public health methods (e.g.,
the health value of boiling water before drinking it), while addressing contextual
and cultural barriers to change, people would readily adopt new ways and the threat
of many diseases would begin to diminish. Seven decades later, a large proportion
of the morbidity and mortality in our world is still due to the same tenacious problems
of malnutrition, pregnancy-related complications, infectious diseases, and lack of
access to high-quality health care. Although some of the diseases, like HIV/AIDS,
are new, one old disease but only one, smallpox, has been eliminated. With economic
development, the so-called Third World was re-branded in terms of the size of each
country's economy as low or middle income countries. With more "development," these
countries started to experience a mixed epidemiologic profile: "diseases of poverty,"
on the one hand (Farmer, 2003), and chronic conditions such as cancer, diabetes, and
cardiovascular disease, on the other. The raising awareness of the world interconnectedness
demonstrated how health profiles depended on key social determinants of global health
such as living and working conditions, level of education, neighborhood characteristics,
and access to water, sanitation and health care services which are exacerbated by
escalating levels of poverty, inequalities, war, genocide, and greed (Singer and Erickson,
2013)"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Singer, Merrill. Éditeur scientifique
Erickson, Pamela Irene (1951-....). Éditeur scientifique
Abadia-Barrero, César. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Anthropologie médicale
Indice(s) Dewey :
306.461 (23e éd.) = Médecine et santé (sociologie)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781119718901
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47124708p
Notice n° :
FRBNF47124708
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Table des matières : Re/inventing medical anthropology : definitional struggles and key debates (or: answering
the "cri du coeur") / Elisa J. Sobo ; Critical biocultual approaches to health and
illness / Tom Leatherman and Alan H. Goodman ; Applied medical anthropology : praxis,
pragmatics, politics, and promises / Robert T. Trotter, II ; Research design and
methods in medical anthropology / Clarence C. Gravlee ; Culture and the stress process
/ William W. Dressler ; Global health / Craig R. Janes, Jennifer A. Liu & Kitty K.
Corbett ; Syndemics in global health / Merrill Singer & Emily Mendenhall ; The ecology
of health and disease / Patricia K. Townsend ; The medical anthropology of water
and sanitation / E. Christian Wells & Linda M. Whiteford ; Medical anthropology of
political violence and war / Barbara Rylko-Bauer ; Medical anthropology at the end
of life / Ron Barrett ; The anthropology of reproduction / Elise Andaya & Mounia
El Kotni ; Anthropological approaches to migration and health / Heide Castañeda
; Current approaches to nutritional health in medical anthropology / Deven Gray, David
A Himmelgreen, Nancy Romero Daza & Charlotte Noble ; Cancers' multiplicities : anthropologies
of interventions and care / Lenore Manderson ; Anthropology and the study of illicit
drug use / J. Bryan Page ; Revisiting generation Rx : emerging trends in pharmaceutical
enhancement, lifestyle regulation, self-medication, and recreational drug use / Gilbert
Quintero & Mark Nichter ; Ethnomedicines / Marsha B. Quinlan ; Medical pluralism
: an evolving and contested concept in medical anthropology / Hans A. Baer ; Biotechnologies
of care / Ruth Fitzgerald & Julie Park ; Medicine : colonial, postcolonial, or decolonial?
/ César E. Abadía-Barrero ; The politics of communicability / Charles L. Briggs
; When workers' health is public health : applying medical anthropology to analyze
the structural complicity of state public health policies as COVID-19 spread in meat-processing
plants and minority communities / Sandy Smith-Nonini ; Climate change and health
: anthropology & beyond / Merrill Singer, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet and Ashley L. Graham
