Contributor
Sargent, Carolyn F., 1947-
Edition Statement:Rev. ed.
Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996.
Descriptionvi, 557 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:PART I. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES: The therapeutic process / Thomas J. Csordas, Arthur Kleinman -- Political economoy in medical anthropology / Soheir A. Morsy -- A critical-interpretive approach in medical anthropology: rituals and routines of discipline and dissent / Margaret Lock, Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Culture, emotion, and psychiatric disorder / Janis H. Jenkins -- Clinically applied anthropology / Noel J. Chrisman, Thomas M. Johnson -- PART II. MEDICAL SYSTEMS: Ethnomedicine / Arthur J. Rubel, 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 -- PART III. HEALTH ISSUES IN HUMAN POPULATIONS: Disease, ecology, and human behavior / Peter J. Brown, Marcia C. Inhorn, Daniel J. Smith -- Anthropology and studies of human reproduction / carole H. Browner, Carolyn F. Sargent -- Alcolhol and drug studies / Linda A. Bennett, Paul W. Cook, Jr. -- Culture, stress, and disease / William W. Dressler -- Nutrition in medical anthropology / Sara A. Quandt -- PART IV. METHODS IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Research designs in medical anthropology / Pertti J. Pelto, Gretel H. Pelto -- Epidemiology and medical anthropology / William R. True -- PART V. POLICY AND ADVOCACY: Bioethics in anthropology: perspectives on culture, medicine, and morality / Patricia A. Marshall, Barbara A. Koenig -- The professionalization of indigenous healers / Murray Last -- International health: problems and programs in anthropological perspective / Sandra D. Lane, Robert A. Rubinstein.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-542) and index.
