| Description |
x, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Critical approaches in the health social sciences series |
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Critical approaches in the health social sciences series.
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. Medical Anthropology and its Transformation --Ch. 2. The Critical Gaze -- Ch. 3. Postmodernism Medical Anthropology: A Critique -- Ch. 4. Health-Related Issues in Socialist-Oriented Societies: Ideals, Contradictions, and Realities -- Ch. 5. Studying Up: The Political Economy of Nuclear Regulation -- Ch. 6. The American Dominative Medical System as a Reflection of Social Relations in the Larger Society -- Ch. 7. AIDS and the Health Crisis of the U.S. Urban Poor -- Ch. 8. The Drive for Professionalization in British Osteopathy -- Ch. 9. Medical Hegemony, Biomedical Magic, and Folk Medicine: Reproductive Illness among Haitian Women -- Ch. 10. Prophets and Advisors in African-American Spiritual Churches: Therapy, Palliative, or Opiate? -- Ch. 11. Confronting Juan Garcia's Drinking Problem: The Demedicalization of Alcoholism -- Ch. 12. Cure, Care and Control: Agency and Structure in the Clinical Encounter -- Ch. 13. How Critical Can Clinical Anthropology Be? |
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Ch. 14. Critical Praxis in Medical Anthropology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Medical anthropology.
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Anthropology, Cultural.
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Sociology, Medical.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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Medicine, Traditional.
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| Author |
Baer, Hans, 1944-
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| LC no. |
94039810 |
| ISBN |
0895031248 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0895031507 (paper : acid-free paper) |
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