Medical anthropology and the world system
a critical perspective
by Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser
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Medical anthropology is one of the youngest and most dynamic of the various subdisciplines within anthropology. Critical medical anthropology has evolved into one of the major perspectives through which faculty and students study the field: it makes connections between the macro-level of the capitalist world and the micro-level of the patient's beliefs about and experiences with disease.
While critical medical anthropology draws heavily on neo-Marxian, critical, and world systems theoretical perspectives, it attempts to incorporate the theoretical contribution of other systems in medical anthropology, including biocultural or medical ecology, ethnomedical approaches, cultural constructivism, poststructuralism, and postmodernism. This is the first textbook to incorporate this perspective.
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Political anthropology, Medical anthropology, Ethnomedizin, Anthropologie, Medische antropologie, Physical Anthropology, Medizin, Anthropologie medicale, Ethnologie, Sociology - General, Social Science, Sociology, Anthropology - Cultural, Social Science / Sociology / General, Anthropology - General, Diet / Health / Fitness, Social Medicine, Anthropology, Medicine, PoliticsShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives
2013, ABC-CLIO, LLC
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Medical anthropology and the world system: critical perspectives
2013, Praeger
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Medical Anthropology and the World System: Second Edition
February 28, 2004, Praeger Publishers
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Medical anthropology and the world system
2003, Praeger
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Medical anthropology and the world system: a critical perspective
1997, Bergin & Garvey, ABC-CLIO, LLC
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-270) and index.
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