Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-159) and index.
Contents:
1. What's so cultural about disease? Culture in medicine. Development of medical anthropology ; Medical anthropology today ; Summary: Placing medical anthropology among the social sciences of medicine. -- 2. Anthropological questions and methods in the study of sickness and healing. Studying shamans in Peru ; Studying medicine in the United States ; Summary: Anthropological vision. -- 3. Recognizing biological, social, and cultural interconnections: evolutionary and ecological perspectives on a cholera epidemic. Thinking about epidemics ; History and biology of cholera ; Epidemiological accounts of Peru's cholera epidemic ; Evolution and the ecological framework ; Cholera and the evolutionary framework ; Medical anthropology embraces the ecological/evolutionary model. -- 4. Expanding the vision of medical anthropology: critical and interpretive views of the cholera epidemic. Political-economy of cholera ; Political-economic versus ecological/evolutionary perspectives ; Interpretive view of cholera ; Taking a broader, inclusive perspective. -- 5. The global petri dish. Transitions ; SARS: the first global epidemic of the twenty-first century ; One health ecology ; Further complications: the threat of bioterrorism. 6. Healers and the healing professions. Healing roles: organizing the diversity ; Authority of healers ; Authority in the folk health sector: position of Peruvian curanderos ; Authority in the professional health care sector: case of biomedicine ; Challenges to biomedical authority ; Authority of biomedicine in non-Western countries. -- 7. Applying medical anthropology. Medical anthropology in international development: a brief history ; Work of applied medical anthropologists in international contexts ; Applying medical anthropology in the United States ; Between a rock and a hard place: applied medical anthropology under attack ; Personal reflections. -- 8. Anthropology and medical ethics. Medical ethics: a comparative framework ; Medical ethics beyond biomedicine ; Development of bioethics in the United States ; Social sciences and bioethics ; Social science: out of the closet. -- 9. A look back and a glance ahead. Advantages of medical anthropology ; Thinking anthropologically about HIV/AIDS ; Directions for future work in medical anthropology.
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