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Author : Marcus Solomon Goldstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Odyssey in Anthropology and Public Health written by Marcus Solomon Goldstein and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert A. Hahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199705542
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Anthropology and Public Health written by Robert A. Hahn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many serious public health problems confront the world in the new millennium. Anthropology and Public Health examines the critical role of anthropology in four crucial public health domains: (1) anthropological understandings of public health problems such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and diabetes; (2) anthropological design of public health interventions in areas such as tobacco control and elder care; (3) anthropological evaluations of public health initiatives such as Safe Motherhood and polio eradication; and (4) anthropological critiques of public health policies, including neoliberal health care reforms. As the volume demonstrates, anthropologists provide crucial understandings of public health problems from the perspectives of the populations in which the problems occur. On the basis of such understandings, anthropologists may develop and implement interventions to address particular public health problems, often working in collaboration with local participants. Anthropologists also work as evaluators, examining the activities of public health institutions and the successes and failures of public health programs. Anthropological critiques may focus on major international public health agencies and their workings, as well as public health responses to the threats of infectious disease and other disasters. Through twenty-four compelling case studies from around the world, the volume provides a powerful argument for the imperative of anthropological perspectives, methods, information, and collaboration in the understanding and practice of public health. Written in plain English, with significant attention to anthropological methodology, the book should be required reading for public health practitioners, medical anthropologists, and health policy makers. It should also be of interest to those in the behavioral and allied health sciences, as well as programs of public health administration, planning, and management. As the single most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of anthropology's role in public health, this volume will inform debates about how to solve the world's most pressing public health problems at a critical moment in human history.
Author : Mithun Das
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789386682871
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Anthropology in Public Health written by Mithun Das and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Pool
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 033522749X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Medical Anthropology written by Robert Pool and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2005-09-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical anthropology is playing an increasingly important role in public health. This book provides an introduction to the basic concepts, approaches and theories used, and shows how these contribute to understanding complex health related behaviour. Public health policies and interventions are more likely to be effective if the beliefs and behaviour of people are understood and taken into account. The book examines: Concepts of culture Medical systems Patient's experience of illness and treatment The use of medicines and healing practices Public health and medical research Examples of particular health problems, such as HIV and malaria, are used to show how an anthropological approach can contribute to both a better understanding of health and illness and to more culturally compatible public health measures. Series Editors: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.
Author : Robert A. Hahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195374649
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Anthropology and Public Health written by Robert A. Hahn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists also work as evaluators, examining the activities of public health institutions and the successes and failures of public health programs.
Author : Carol R. Ember
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306477548
Total Pages : 1103 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology written by Carol R. Ember and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 1103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and disease are managed in different cultures, the more we can recognize what is "culture bound" in our own medical belief and practice. The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology is unique because it is the first reference work to describe the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures and to provide an overview of important topics in medical anthropology. No other single reference work comes close to marching the depth and breadth of information on the varying cultural background of health and illness around the world. More than 100 experts - anthropologists and other social scientists - have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures from around the world.
Author : Peter J. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315416158
Total Pages : 899 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology written by Peter J. Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 899 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors of the third edition of the seminal textbook Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology bring it completely up to date for both instructors and students. The collection of 49 readings (17 of them new to this edition) offers extensive background description and exposes students to the breadth of theoretical, methodological, and practical perspectives and issues in the field of medical anthropology. The text provides specific examples and case studies of research as it is applied to a range of health settings: from cross-cultural clinical encounters to cultural analysis of new biomedical technologies and the implementation of programs in global health settings. The new edition features: • a major revision that eliminates many older readings in favor of more fresh, relevant selections; • a new section on structural violence that looks at the impact of poverty and other forms of social marginalization on health; • an updated and expanded section on “Conceptual Tools,” including new research and ideas that are currently driving the field of medical anthropology forward (such as epigenetics and syndemics); • new chapters on climate change, Ebola, PTSD among Iraq/Afghanistan veterans, eating disorders, and autism, among others; • recent articles from Margaret Mead Award winners Sera Young, Seth Holmes, and Erin Finley, along with new articles by such established medical anthropologists as Paul Farmer and Merrill Singer.
Author : Paul Stoller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226775364
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Power of the Between written by Paul Stoller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the anthropologist’s fate to always be between things: countries, languages, cultures, even realities. But rather than lament this, anthropologist Paul Stoller here celebrates the creative power of the between, showing how it can transform us, changing our conceptions of who we are, what we know, and how we live in the world. Beginning with his early days with the Peace Corps in Africa and culminating with a recent bout with cancer, The Power of the Between is an evocative account of the circuitous path Stoller’s life has taken, offering a fascinating depiction of how a career is shaped over decades of reading and research. Stoller imparts his accumulated wisdom not through grandiose pronouncements but by drawing on his gift for storytelling. Tales of his apprenticeship to a sorcerer in Niger, his studies with Claude Lévi-Strauss in Paris, and his friendships with West African street vendors in New York City accompany philosophical reflections on love, memory, power, courage, health, and illness. Graced with Stoller’s trademark humor and narrative elegance, The Power of the Between is both the story of a distinguished career and a profound meditation on coming to terms with the impermanence of all things.
Author : University of Michigan. School of Public Health
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Readings in Anthropology Related to Public Health written by University of Michigan. School of Public Health and published by . This book was released on 1962* with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Didier Fassin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781509558278
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (582 download)
Download or read book The Worlds of Public Health written by Didier Fassin and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public health erupted into the world's consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid-19 pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What had been until then, for most people, a remote and specialized field of expertise suddenly became the very basis for the government of lives. The Worlds of Public Health is an inquiry into the various games of power and knowledge at play in public health today. It analyses the moral and political issues at stake in the practice of public health, including the influence of positivism, the boundaries of disease, conspiracy theories, morality tests, and the challenges posed by the health of migrants and prisoners. This exploration transports readers from South Africa, the country most impacted by the AIDS epidemic, to Ecuador, with the supposedly highest maternal mortality rate in Latin America, from the scientific controversies concerning the so-called worm wars in Kenya to conflicts between doctors and patients around Gulf War syndrome in the United States, from lead poisoning and public housing in France to the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide. The book argues that what is crucial for the critical analysis of public health is to attend to the different ways that life is valued--and either protected or not--in contemporary societies. This book will be of particular interest for students and scholars in medical anthropology, the sociology of health and illness and social medicine, and it will also appeal to anyone interested in the nature and role of public health today.
Author : Margaret M. Lock
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119069157
Total Pages : 919 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book An Anthropology of Biomedicine written by Margaret M. Lock and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing on historical and ethnographic work, the book critiques the assumption made by the biological sciences of a universal human body that can be uniformly standardized. It focuses on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies brings about radical changes to societies at large based on socioeconomic inequalities and ethical disputes, and develops and integrates the theory that the human body in health and illness is not an ontological given but a moveable, malleable entity. This second edition includes new chapters on: microbiology and the microbiome; global health; and, the self as a socio-technical system. In addition, all chapters have been comprehensively revised to take account of developments from within this fast-paced field, in the intervening years between publications. References and figures have also been updated throughout. This highly-regarded and award-winning textbook (Winner of the 2010 Prose Award for Archaeology and Anthropology) retains the character and features of the previous edition. Its coverage remains broad, including discussion of: biomedical technologies in practice; anthropologies of medicine; biology and human experiments; infertility and assisted reproduction; genomics, epigenomics, and uncertain futures; and molecularizing racial difference, ensuring it remains the essential text for students of anthropology, medical anthropology as well as public and global health.
Author : C. Janes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400937237
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Anthropology and Epidemiology written by C. Janes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades increasing interest has emerged in the contribu tions that the social sciences might make to the epidemiological study of patterns of health and disease. Several reasons can be cited for this increasing interest. Primary among these has been the rise of the chronic, non-infectious diseases as important causes of morbidity and mortality within Western populations during the 20th century. Generally speaking, the chronic, non infectious diseases are strongly influenced by lifestyle variables, which are themselves strongly influenced by social and cultural forces. The under standing of the effects of the behavioral factors in, say, hypertension, thus requires an understanding of the social and cultural factors which encourage obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, non-compliance with anti-hypertensive medica tions (or other prescribed regimens), and stress. Equally, there is a growing awareness that considerations of human behavior and its social and cultural determinants are important for understanding the distribution and control of infectious diseases. Related to this expansion of epidemiologic interest into the behavioral realm 'has been the development of etiological models which focus on the psychological, biological and socio-cultural characteristics of hosts, rather than exclusive concern with exposure to a particular agent or even behavioral risk. Also during this period advances in statistical and computing techniques have made accessible the ready testing of multivariate causal models, and so have encouraged the measurement of the effects of social and cultural factors on disease occurrence.
Author : Michael Winkelman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470462612
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Culture and Health written by Michael Winkelman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-12-05 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address the challenges of cross-cultural medicine through interdisciplinary cultural-ecological models and personal and institutional developmental approaches to cross-cultural adaptation and competency. The book addresses the perspectives of clinically applied anthropology, trans-cultural psychiatry and the medical ecology, critical medical anthropology and symbolic paradigms as frameworks for enhanced comprehension of health and the medical encounter. Includes cultural case studies, applied vignettes, and self-assessments.
Author : Hans A. Baer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440802564
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Medical Anthropology and the World System written by Hans A. Baer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related behavior, and health care in light of social and health inequality as well as structural violence. It also examines how the exercise of power in the health arena and in society overall impacts human health and well-being. Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives, Third Edition includes updated and expanded information on medical anthropology, resulting in an even more comprehensive resource for undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers worldwide. As in the previous versions of this text, the authors provide insights from the perspective of critical medical anthropology, a well-established theoretical viewpoint from which faculty, researchers, and students study medical anthropology. It addresses the nature and scope of medical anthropology; the biosocial and political ecological origins of disease, health inequities, and social suffering; and the nature of medical systems in indigenous and pre-capitalist state societies and modern societies. The third edition also includes new material on the relationship between climate change and health. Finally, this textbook explores health praxis and the struggle for a healthy world.
Author : Mari Womack
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780759110441
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Anthropology of Health and Healing written by Mari Womack and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthropology of Health and Healing provides the first holistic approach to the study of medical anthropology. Over the past two decades, medical anthropology has been the most rapidly growing subfield in anthropology, and a number of medical anthropology texts have been published, focusing primarily on public policy and health care delivery systems. Yet while anthropologists have researched topics related to medical anthropology for more than one hundred years, here Mari Womack thoroughly surveys this richly diverse field and provides an integrated approach that links together the biological, psychological, social, communicative, epidemiological, philosophical, historical, and developmental factors that shape health and healing. Book jacket.
Author : Shirley Lindenbaum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520077857
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Knowledge, Power, and Practice written by Shirley Lindenbaum and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-10-04 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging in time and locale, these essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, are based on research in historical and cultural settings. The contributors accept the notion that all knowledge is socially and culturally constructed and examine the contexts in which that knowledge is produced and practiced in medicine, psychiatry, epidemiology, and anthropology. -- from publisher description.
Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 147861028X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Global Health written by Merrill Singer and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affordable and conceptually accessible, this succinct volume captures the distinctive anthropological perspective on global health issues for undergraduates in the social and health sciences. Ideal for professors who want to add an experiential human face, a cultural dimension, and an emic understanding of health in cross-cultural contexts to interdisciplinary course content, Global Health exposes the day-to-day health challenges people around the world face. Key to its message is that, despite strides in improving worldwide health, human impacts on the environment, violent social conflict, and increasing social inequality diminish the success of global health initiatives to protect against illness, disability, and death. Readers, gripped by the impact of undeniable, far-reaching realities such as global warming, infectious disease, food insecurity, water crises, war and genocide, and refugee crises, will learn to apply a holistic, anthropological framework in search of solutions to such complex biosocial conditions.
