Medical Anthropology and the World System: Second Edition ANNOTATION
The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
SYNOPSIS
This is the first textbook on medical anthropology that examines the global diversity of health systems.
ACCREDITATION
Baer, Hans A. (Arizona State Univ); Singer, Merrill (Univ of Connecticut); Susser, Ida (City Univ of New York)
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