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Exploring Medical Anthropology

ISBN: 9780205270064 | 0205270069
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 1/1/1999

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SummaryTable of Contents
This book is a concise and readable introduction to medical anthropology, drawn from the author's research on Peruvian shamanism and organ transplantation in the United States. The author uses this ethnographic material from South America and the U.S. to illustrate the points of the book. These points are: 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.
Prefacexi
What's So Cultural about Disease?
1(16)
Culture in Medicine
2(6)
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Disease in Other Cultures and Times
3(1)
Impact of Culture on Contemporary Biomedicine
4(4)
Development of Medical Anthropology
8(3)
Medicine as a Social Process: William H. R. Rivers
8(1)
Functional Views of Medicine: Erwin Ackerknecht
9(1)
Applied Roots of Medical Anthropology
10(1)
Medical Anthropology Today
11(1)
Summary: Placing Medical Anthropology among the Social Sciences of Medicine
12(1)
Suggested Readings
13(1)
Notes
14(3)
Anthropological Questions and Methods in the Study of Sickness and Healing
17(14)
Studying Shamans in Peru
18(4)
Research Questions
18(2)
Research Methods
20(1)
From Fieldwork to Analysis and Interpretation
20(2)
Studying Medicine in the United States
22(7)
Organ Transplantation as an Anthropological Subject
22(1)
Research Questions
23(4)
Research Methods
27(2)
Summary: Anthropological Vision
29(1)
Suggested Readings
30(1)
Notes
30(1)
Recognizing Biological, Social, and Cultural Interconnections: Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives on a Cholera Epidemic
31(14)
Thinking about Epidemics
32(1)
History and Biology of Cholera
33(2)
Epidemiological Accounts of Peru's Cholera Epidemic
35(1)
Evolution and the Ecological Framework
36(2)
Cholera and the Evolutionary Framework
38(2)
Medical Anthropology Embraces the Ecological/Evolutionary Model
40(3)
Suggested Readings
43(1)
Notes
43(2)
Expanding the Vision of Medical Anthropology: Critical and Interpretive Views of the Cholera Epidemic
45(16)
Political-Economy of Cholera
46(3)
Political-Economic versus Ecological/Evolutionary Perspectives
49(2)
Interpretive View of Cholera
51(5)
Taking a Broader, Inclusive Perspective
56(2)
Suggested Readings
58(1)
Notes
58(3)
Healers and the Healing Professions
61(20)
Healing Roles: Organizing the Diversity
62(2)
Health Care Sectors
62(1)
Healers' Relationships between and within Health Care Sectors
63(1)
Authority of Healers
64(2)
Social and Cultural Dimensions: General Concepts
64(1)
Therapy Outcome and Healer Authority
65(1)
Authority in the Folk Health Sector: Position of Peruvian Curanderos
66(1)
Social Authority of Peruvian Curanderos
66(1)
Outcome of Curandero Therapy
66(1)
Cultural Authority of Curanderos
67(1)
Authority in the Professional Health Care Sector: Case of Biomedicine
67(3)
What Sets Biomedicine Apart?
67(1)
Social Authority of Biomedical Healers
68(1)
Outcome of Biomedical Healing
69(1)
Cultural Authority of Biomedicine
69(1)
Challenges to Biomedical Authority
70(3)
Economic Critique and Biomedicine's Social Authority
70(1)
Clinical Critique and Biomedicine's Cultural Authority
71(1)
Outcome Critique
72(1)
Impact of the Critiques
73(1)
Authority of Biomedicine in Non-Western Countries
73(4)
Good News, Bad News
73(2)
Importance of Primary Health Care
75(1)
Alma Ata and PHC in Question: Biomedicine Reasserts Its Authority
76(1)
Conclusion
77(1)
Suggested Readings
77(1)
Notes
78(3)
Applying Medical Anthropology
81(20)
Medical Anthropology in International Development: A Brief History
84(4)
Anthropological Trouble-Shooters, 1945-1973
84(2)
Disenchantment and Disengagement
86(1)
Social Soundness Guidelines and the Return of Applied Anthropology, 1973-1980
87(1)
Reagan/Bush Years (1981-1993) and Beyond
88(1)
Work of Applied Medical Anthropologists in International Contexts
88(3)
Growth and Nutrition: An Educatinal Project in Indonesia
89(1)
Medical Anthropology and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Sex Workers in Zaire
90(1)
Applying Medical Anthropology in the United States
91(3)
Case for Anthropology in the Medical School Curriculum
92(1)
Special Challenge of Introducing Anthropology to Medical Students
93(1)
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Applied Medical Anthropology under Attack
94(3)
Critical Medical Anthropology Assault on Applied Medical Anthropology
94(1)
Response from Applied Medical Anthropologists
95(2)
Personal Reflections
97(1)
Conclusion
98(1)
Suggested Readings
99(1)
Notes
99(2)
Anthropology and Medical Ethics
101(18)
Medical Ethics: A Comparative Framework
102(3)
Terminological Concerns
102(1)
Question of Ethical Universals
103(2)
Medical Ethics beyond Biomedicine
105(3)
Medical Ethics in Small-Scale Societies
105(1)
Ethics and Folk Healers
106(1)
Ethics in the Great Traditions of Medicine
106(2)
Development of Bioethics in the United States
108(2)
Historical Perspective
108(1)
Manifestations of Bioethics in Public Life
108(1)
Deliberating Bioethics
109(1)
Social Sciences and Bioethics
110(1)
Social Science: Out of the Closet
111(4)
Case of the Non-Heart-Beating Cadaver
111(3)
Moral Passion and Social Science?
114(1)
Medical Anthropology in Bioethics
115(1)
Suggested Readings
115(1)
Notes
116(3)
A Look Back and a Glance Ahead
119(8)
Advantages of Medical Anthropology
120(1)
Sensitivity for Culture and Biology
120(1)
Recognition That the Political-Economy Has Health Implications
121(1)
Insistence on the Value of Ethnography
121(1)
Commitment to Applying Medical Anthropology
121(1)
Thinking Anthropologically about HIV/AIDS
121(2)
AIDS and the Culture-Biology Interface
122(1)
Political-Economic Factors in the Pandemic
122(1)
AIDS Ethnography and Its Contribution to Prevention Planning
123(1)
Directions for Future Work in Medical Anthropology
123(2)
Culture, Health, and Science: A Model for Undergraduate Study
123(1)
Academic and Professional Career Paths Related to Medical Anthropology
124(1)
Conclusion
125(1)
Suggested Readings
125(1)
Notes
126(1)
Glossary127(4)
References131

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