| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 521 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Medical anthropology : central concepts and development -- Theoretical perspectives in medical anthropology -- Health and the environment : from foraging societies to the capitalist world system -- The impact of climate change, environmental crises, and disasters on health -- Poverty, injustice, and health in the world system -- Reproduction, biotechnologies, and inequality -- Violence and war -- Legal and illegal drugs : experience, behavior, and society -- AIDS and infectious diseases -- Syndemics and the biosocial nature of health -- Medical systems in indigenou and precapitalist and early capitalist state societies -- Biomedical hegemony in the context of medical pluralism -- Health praxis and the struggle for a healthy, socially just, and environmentally sustainable world system |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-497) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Medical anthropology.
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Anthropology, Medical.
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Social Medicine.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Singer, Merrill, author
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Susser, Ida, author
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| ISBN |
1440802564 (electronic bk.) |
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9781440802560 (electronic bk.) |
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