| Description |
ix, 349 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Culture, illness, and healing |
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Culture, illness, and healing.
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| Contents |
Introduction: medical anthropology and epidemiology / Frederick L. Dunn and Craig R. Janes -- Early work in anthropology and epidemiology: from social medicine to the germ theory, 1840 to 1920 / James Trostle -- Anthroplogy and epidemiology in the twentieth century: a selective history of collaborative projects and theoretical affinities, 1920 to 1970 / James Trostle -- Epidemiological research on infectious disease: quantitative rigor or rigor mortis? Insights from ethnomedicine / Marilyn K. Nations -- Ethnicity, ecology and mortality transitions in Northwestern Thailand / Peter Kunstadter -- The AIDS epidemic in San Francisco: epidemiological and anthropological perspectives / E. Michael Gorman -- Migration and hypertension: an ethnography of disease risk in an urban Samoan community / Craig R. Janes -- The meaning of lumps: a case study of the ambiguities of risk / Sandra M. Gifford -- Colonial stress in the Canadian Arctic: an ethnography of young adults changing / John D. O'Neil -- Respondent-identified reasons for change and stability in alcohol consumption as a concomitant of the aging process / Ron Stall -- Identifying psychosocial disorders in children: on integrating epidemiological and anthropological understandings / Robert A. Rubinstein and Janet D. Perloff |
| Analysis |
Medicine - Anthropological perspectives |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes |
| Subject |
Ethnology.
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Anthropology.
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Communicable diseases.
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Epidemiology.
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Medical anthropology.
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Anthropology, Cultural.
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Epidemiology.
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Epidmiology
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| Author |
Gifford, Sandra M.
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Janes, Craig R. (Craig Robert), 1953-
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Stall, Ron, 1954-
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| LC no. |
86020434 |
| ISBN |
902772248X |
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9027722498 |
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