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Title Medical anthropology : a handbook of theory and method / edited by Thomas M. Johnson and Carolyn F. Sargent
Published New York : Greenwood Press, 1990

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Description vi, 479 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Disease, ecology, and human behavior / Peter J. Brown and Marcia C. Inhorn -- Anthropology and studies of human reproduction / Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent -- Drug studies / Linda A. Bennett and Paul W. Cook, Jr. -- Culture, stress, and disease / William W. Dressler -- Field methods in medical anthropology / Pertti J. Pelto and Gretel H. Pelto -- Epidemiology and medical anthropology / William R. True -- Demography / W. Penn Handwerker -- Professionalization of indigenous healers / Murray Last -- International health and development / Robert A. Rubinstein and Sandra D. Lane
Introduction / Thomas M. Johnson and Carolyn F. Sargent -- The therapeutic process / Thomas J. Csordas and Arthur Kleinman -- Political economy in medical anthropology / Soheir Morsy -- A critical-interpretive approach to medical anthropology : rituals and routines of discipline and dissent / Margaret Lock and Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Psychoanalytic perspectives / Howard F. Stein -- Clinically applied anthropology / Noel J. Chrisman and Thomas M. Johnson -- Ethnomedicine / Arthur J. Rubel and Michael R. Hass -- Ethnopsychiatry / Charles C. Hughes -- Ethnopharmacology : biological and behavioral perspectives in the study of indigenous medicines / Nina L. Etkin -- Studying biomedicine as a cultural system / Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes -- Nursing and anthropology / Molly Dougherty and Toni Tripp-Reimer
Analysis Medicine Sociology
Medicine Sociology
Notes Bibliography: p391-462. - Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-462) and index
Subject Medical anthropology.
Author Johnson, Thomas M. (Thomas Malcolm), 1947-
Sargent, Carolyn F., 1947-
LC no. 89025733
ISBN 031325947X (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)