Medical Anthropology

By: Cecil G. Helman (Editor)

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Hardcover | 16 October 2008

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This important volume includes key papers which outline the history, concepts, research findings and recent controversies in medical anthropology - the cross-cultural study of health, illness and medical care. Among the topics covered are transcultural psychiatry, food and nutrition, anthropology of the body, alcohol and drug use, traditional healers, childbirth and bereavement and the applications of medical anthropology to international health issues, such as the HIV/AIDS pandemic, malaria prevention and family planning. It is a valuable resource not only for scholars and students of medical anthropology but also for health professionals working in multi-cultural settings, or in international medical aid programmes.

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Prize: Professor Cecil Helman was the winner of the 2008 George Abercrombie Award, one of the highest awards given by the Royal College of General Practitioners and awarded to 'the person who has made an outstanding contribution to the literature of general practice'. 'Some very distinguished and oft-cited contributors have been included alongside some less well-known but nevertheless interesting and accomplished scholars and practitioners, making the book well-rounded and accessible to many audiences. As medical anthropology is an eclectic and multidisciplinary area of study, the editor is to be commended for aiming to make it relevant to as wide a readership as is possible.' Health Sociology Review 'There is a good deal of material of interest in this volume...' Health and History

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Introduction
Basic Concepts
Food and Nutrition
Food beliefs and practices among British Bangladeshis with diabetes: implications for health education
The biocultural approach in nutritional anthropology: case studies of malnutrition in Mali
Alcohol and Drug Use
Crack in Spanish Harlem: culture and economy in the inner city
Cohesion and division: drinking in a English village
Transcultural Psychiatry
Cultural factors and international epidemiology
The heart of what's the matter: the semantics of illness in Iran
Heart disease and the cultural construction of time: the Type A behaviour pattern as a Western culture-bound syndrome
The future of cultural psychiatry: an international perspective
The mental health of refugee children and their cultural development
Connectedness versus separateness: applicability of family therapy to Japanese families
Medical Pluralism and Traditional Healers
Innovative medicine - a case study of a modern healer
Cold or spirits? Choice and ambiguity in Morocco's pluralistic medical system
Languages of Distress
The semantics of pain in Indian culture and medicine
The angry liver, the anxious heart and the melancholy spleen
Rituals of Childbirth and Death
The technocratic model of birth
McFunerals: the transition of Japanese funerary services
Applied Anthropology
International Health
What is 'World Health'?
Globality and constructions of world health
Family Planning
Culture and the management of family planning programs
Indigenous forms of fertility control
Diarrhoeal Diseases
Cultural models of diarrheal illness: conceptual framework and review
HIV and AIDS
Knowledge and meaning: the AIDS education campaign in rural Northeast Thailand
It's never as easy as ABC: understandings of AIDS in Botswana
Malaria
Fake malaria and hidden parasites - the ambiguity of malaria
Infectious Diseases
Kyasanur Forest Disease: an ethnography of a disease of development
Contemporary Issues
The Body
The anthropology of the beginnings and ends of life
Beyond nature and culture: modes of reasoning in the age of molecular biology and medicine
Visible humans, vanishing bodies, and virtual nursing: complications of life, presence, place and identity
Impossible gifts: bodies, Buddhism and bioethics in contemporary Sri Lanka
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