| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 730 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Anthropology of childhood Malaria in Tanzania / Vinay R. Kamat -- Diagnosis and management of asthma in the medical marketplace of India : Implications for efforts to improve global respiratory health / David Van Sickle -- Situating stress : lessons from lay discourses on Diabetes / Nancy E. Schoenberg [and others] -- Understanding pregnancy in a population of inner-city women in New Orleans--results of qualitative research / Carl Kendall [and others] -- Limits of "Heterosexual AIDS" : ethnographic research on tourism and male sexual labor in the Dominican Republic / Mark B. Padilla -- Male infertility and consanguinity in Lebanon : the power of ethnographic epidemiology / Marcia C. Inhorn [and others] -- Structural violence, political violence, and the health costs of civil conflict : a case sudy from Peru / Tom Leatherman and R. Brooke Thomas -- Bridges between mental health care and religious healing in Puerto Rico : the outcomes of an early experiment / Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- Indigenization of illness support groups for Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti / Jeannine Coreil and Gladys Mayard -- Using formative research to explore and address elder health and care in Chiapas, Mexico / Namino Glantz -- Anthropological contributions to the development of culturally appropriate tobacco cessation arograms : a global health priority / Mark Nichter [and others] -- From dtreet tesearch to public health intervention : the Hartford Drug Monitoring Project / Merrill Singer [and others] -- Sexual risk reduction among married women and men in Urban India : an anthropological intervention / Stephen L. Schensul [and others] -- Honorable mutilation? : changing responses to female genital cutting in Sudan / Ellen Gruenbaum -- Making pregnancy safer for women around the world : the example of safe motherhood and maternal death in Guatemala / Nicole S. Berry -- Counting on mothers love : the global polities of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Eastern Africa / Karen Marie Moland and Astrid Blystad -- Brazilian response to AIDS and the pharmaceuticalization of global health / Joao Biehl -- Anthropological and public health perspectives on the global polio eradication initiative in Northern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- "Sanitary makeshifts" and the perpetuation of health stratification in Indonesia / Eric A. Stein -- Global panic, local repercussions : economic and nutritional effects of bird flu in Vietnam / Stacy Lockerbie and D. Ann Herring -- Neoliberal infections and the politics of health : Resurgent Tuberculosis Epidemics in New York City and Lima, Peru / Sandy Smith-Nonini -- Biological citizenship after Chernobyl / Adriana Petryna -- Ethnographic evaluation of Post-Alma Ata Health System Reforms in Mongolia : lessons for addressing health inequities in poor communities / Craig R. Janes -- Bureaucratic aspects of international health programs / George M. Foster |
| Summary |
Through 24 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 |
| Notes |
Revised edition of: Anthropology in public health. 1999 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Public health -- Anthropological aspects -- Developing countries
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Public health -- Developing countries
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Ethnology.
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Anthropology, Cultural
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Public Health Practice
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Community Health Planning
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Developing Countries
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Health Services, Indigenous
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Ethnology
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Public health
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Public health -- Anthropological aspects
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hahn, Robert A., 1945-
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Inhorn, Marcia C., 1957-
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| LC no. |
2008006682 |
| ISBN |
9780199865390 |
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0199865396 |
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9780199705542 |
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0199705542 |
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