Medical anthropology and the world system
By: Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser.
Contributors: Singer, Merrill.; Susser, Ida.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: Political anthropology.
Description: Medical anthropology is one of the youngest and most dynamic of the various subdisciplines within anthropology. It examines health related issues in pre-capitalist, indigenous and state societies, capitalist societies and post-revolutionary cultures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-424) and index.
Table of contents: title: Medical anthropology : central concepts and development; title: Theoretical perspectives in medical anthropology; title: Health and the environment : from foraging societies to the capitalist world system; title: Homelessness in the world system; title: Legal addictions, part I : demon in a bottle; title: Legal addictions, part II : up in smoke; title: Illicit drugs : self-medicating the hidden injuries of oppression; title: AIDS : a disease of the global system; title: Reproduction and inequality; title: Medical systems in indigenous and precapitalist state societies; title: Biomedical hegemony in the context of medical pluralism; title: The pursuit of health as a human right : health praxis and the struggle for a healthy world.