| Description |
ix, 169 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Biosocial Society series ; 5 |
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Oxford science publications |
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Biosocial Society series ; 5
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Oxford science publications.
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| Contents |
(cont) Distinctions within the fourth world -- Settler colonialism and welfare state colonialism |
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(cont) Work demands on the mother, breast-feeding and child-care -- Weaning foods -- Water contamination -- Disease in a wider perspective -- Historical dimension -- Recognition and response to illness -- Expected behaviour and the sick role -- Social construction of illness -- Behaviour in illness: the Gnau -- Diagnosis and the classification of illness -- Conceptual distinction between disease and illness -- Description and interpretation -- Standards of normality -- Concept of accident and the interpretation of natural events -- Explanation, the scale of society, and experience of disease -- Significance of an illness for the individual -- Classification and explanation -- Possibilities of knowledge: technology and the clinical gaze -- Causal explanation among the Gnau -- Moral judgements of illness -- Labelling and stigma -- Conclusion -- AIDS in Africa: perceptions of the problems -- Historical and contemporary mortality patterns in Polynesia / Stephen J. Kunitz -- Historical patterns of population change -- Health consequences of traditional and modern life |
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Biological anthropology of disease / C.G.N. Mascie-Taylor -- Basic principles -- Definition of disease -- What causes disease? -- Steps in the development of disease -- Classification of disease agents -- Host-agent interaction -- Modes of transmission -- Host defence systems -- Factors modifying disease patterns -- Socio-cultural evolution -- Physical environment -- Seasonal effects -- Movement patterns -- Customs and habits -- Urbanization, affluence and modernization -- Beliefs -- Occupation -- Sexual practices -- Agricultural practices -- Control measures -- Biological effects of disease -- Disease and mortality -- Disease and life expectancy -- Disease and fertility -- Disease, productivity and work capacity -- Disease, nutrition and growth -- Disease and genetic variation -- Some studies of social causes of and cultural response to disease / G. Lewis -- Complexity of cause -- Levels of inquiry -- Disease in a village -- Keneba: the gambia -- Social factors influencing illness in early life in the Gambia -- Ill health in childhood -- Chain of cause and effect |
| Analysis |
Medicine Sociology |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Ethnology.
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Diseases -- Ethnology
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Diseases -- Social aspects.
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Environmentally induced diseases.
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Medical anthropology.
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Anthropology, Cultural.
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Disease -- ethnology.
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Anthropology, Cultural.
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Disease -- ethnology.
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| Author |
Mascie-Taylor, C. G. N.
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| LC no. |
93003221 |
| ISBN |
0198522878 |
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