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Donald Joralemon's widely popular Exploring Medical Anthropology offers the curious lay person a concise and engaging introduction to the field that presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion.Written in an accessible, jargon-free language, Exploring Medical Anthropology uses cases based on the authors personal research experiences to explain four of the discipline's most important insights: 1) that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of disease, 2) that the political economy is a primary epidemiological factor, 3) that ethnography is an essential tool to understand human suffering due to disease, and 4) that medical anthropology can help to alleviate human suffering.

Preface

What's So Cultural about Disease?

(15)

Culture in Medicine

(6)

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Disease in Other Cultures and Times

(1)

Impact of Culture on Contemporary Biomedicine

(4)

Development of Medical Anthropology

(4)

Medicine as a Social Process: William H. R. Rivers

(1)

Functional Views of Medicine: Erwin Ackerknecht

(1)

Applied Roots of Medical Anthropology

(1)

Medical Anthropology Today

(1)

Summary: Placing Medical Anthropology among the Social Sciences of Medicine

(1)

Suggested Readings

(1)

Notes

(2)

Anthropological Questions and Methods in the Study of Sickness and Healing

(14)

Studying Shamans in Peru

(4)

Research Questions

(2)

Research Methods

(1)

From Fieldwork to Analysis and Interpretation

(2)

Studying Medicine in the United States

(7)

Organ Transplantation as an Anthropological Subject

(1)

Research Questions

(4)

Research Methods

(2)

Summary: Anthropological Vision

(1)

Suggested Readings

(1)

Notes

(1)

Recognizing Biological, Social, and Cultural Interconnections: Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives on a Cholera Epidemic

(14)

Thinking about Epidemics

(1)

History and Biology of Cholera

(1)

Epidemiological Accounts of Peru's Cholera Epidemic

(2)

Evolution and the Ecological Framework

(2)

Cholera and the Evolutionary Framework

(2)

Medical Anthropology Embraces the Ecological/Evolutionary Model

(2)

Suggested Readings

(1)

Notes

(2)

Expanding the Vision of Medical Anthropology: Critical and Interpretive Views of the Cholera Epidemic

(14)

Political-Economy of Cholera

(3)

Political-Economic versus Ecological/Evolutionary Perspectives

(2)

Interpretive View of Cholera

(4)

Taking a Broader, Inclusive Perspective

(3)

Suggested Readings

(1)

Notes

(1)

The Global Petri Dish

(12)

Transitions

(1)

SARS: The First Global Epidemic of the Twenty-First Century

(2)

One Health Ecology

(4)

Challenges to the Ecological/Evolutionary Perspective

(1)

Fluid Constructions: Challenges to the Interpretive Perspective

(1)

Whose Political Economy: Challenges to the Critical Perspective

(2)

Further Complications: The Threat of Bioterrorism

(2)

Suggested Readings

(1)

Notes

(2)

Healers and the Healing Professions

(19)

Healing Roles: Organizing the Diversity

(2)

Health Care Sectors

(1)

Healers' Relationships between and within Health Care Sectors

(1)

Authority of Healers

(1)

Social and Cultural Dimensions: General Concepts

(1)

Therapy Outcome and Healer Authority

(1)

Authority in the Folk Health Sector: Position of Peruvian Curanderos

(2)

Social Authority of Peruvian Curanderos

(1)

Outcome of Curandero Therapy

(1)

Cultural Authority of Curanderos

(1)

Authority in the Professional Health Care Sector: Case of Biomedicine

(3)

What Sets Biomedicine Apart?

(1)

Social Authority of Biomedical Healers

(1)

Outcome of Biomedical Healing

(1)

Cultural Authority of Biomedicine

(1)

Challenges to Biomedical Authority

(3)

Economic Critique and Biomedicine's Social Authority

(1)

Clinical Critique and Biomedicine's Cultural Authority

(1)

Outcome Critique

(1)

Impact of the Critiques

(1)

Authority of Biomedicine in Non-Western Countries

(3)

Good News, Bad News

(1)

Importance of Primary Health Care

(1)

Alma Ata and PHC in Question: Biomedicine Reasserts Its Authority

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Suggested Readings

(1)

Notes

(2)

Applying Medical Anthropology

(19)

Medical Anthropology in International Development: A Brief History

(4)

Anthropological Trouble-Shooters, 1945--1973

(2)

Disenchantment and Disengagement

(1)

Social Soundness Guidelines and the Return of Applied Anthropology, 1973--1980

(1)

Reagan/Bush Years (1981--1993) and Beyond

(1)

Work of Applied Medical Anthropologists in International Contexts

(3)

Growth and Nutrition: An Educational Project in Indonesia

(1)

Medical Anthropology and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Sex Workers in Congo (Formerly Zaire)

(1)

Applying Medical Anthropology in the United States

(3)

Culturally Competency: Whose Culture, Whose Responsibility?

100

(2)

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Applied Medical Anthropology under Attack

102

(2)

Critical Medical Anthropology Assault on Applied Medical Anthropology

102

(1)

Response from Applied Medical Anthropologists

103

(1)

Personal Reflections

104

(2)

Conclusion

106

(1)

Suggested Readings

106

(1)

Notes

106

(2)

Anthropology and Medical Ethics

108

(16)

Medical Ethics: A Comparative Framework

109

(3)

Terminological Concerns

109

(1)

Question of Ethical Universals

110

(2)

Medical Ethics beyond Biomedicine

112

(2)

Medical Ethics in Small-Scale Societies

112

(1)

Ethics and Folk Healers

112

(1)

Ethics in the Great Traditions of Medicine

113

(1)

Development of Bioethics in the United States

114

(3)

Historical Perspective

114

(1)

Manifestations of Bioethics in Public Life

115

(1)

Deliberating Bioethics

116

(1)

Social Sciences and Bioethics

117

(1)

Social Science: Out of the Closet

118

(4)

Case of the Non-Heart-Beating Cadaver

118

(2)

Moral Passion and Social Science?

120

(1)

Medical Anthropology in Bioethics

121

(1)

Suggested Readings

122

(1)

Notes

122

(2)

A Look Back and a Glance Ahead

124

(8)

Advantages of Medical Anthropology

125

(1)

Sensitivity for Culture and Biology

125

(1)

Recognition That the Political-Economy Has Health Implications

125

(1)

Insistence on the Value of Ethnography

126

(1)

Commitment to Applying Medical Anthropology

126

(1)

Thinking Anthropologically about HIV/AIDS

126

(2)

AIDS and the Culture--Biology Interface

127

(1)

Political-Economic Factors in the Pandemic

127

(1)

AIDS Ethnography and Its Contribution to Prevention Planning

127

(1)

Directions for Future Work in Medical Anthropology

128

(2)

Culture, Health, and Science: A Model for Undergraduate Study

128

(1)

Academic and Professional Career Paths Related to Medical Anthropology

129

(1)

Conclusion

130

(1)

Suggested Readings

130

(1)

Notes

131

(1)

Glossary

132

(4)

References

136

(24)

Index

160

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