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| Each chapter concludes with "Suggested Readings" and "Notes." | |
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| What's So Cultural about Disease? | |
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| Culture in Medicine | |
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| Development of Medical Anthropology | |
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| Medical Anthropology Today | |
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| Summary: Placing Medical Anthropology among the Social Sciences of Medicine | |
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| Anthropological Questions and Methods in the Study of Sickness and Healing | |
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| Studying Shamans in Peru | |
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| Studying Medicine in the United States | |
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| Summary: The Anthropological Vision | |
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| Recognizing Biological, Social, and Cultural Interconnections: Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives on a Cholera Epidemic | |
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| Thinking about Epidemics | |
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| History and Biology of Cholera | |
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| Epidemiological Accounts of Peru's Cholera Epidemic | |
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| Evolution and the Ecological Framework | |
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| Cholera and the Evolutionary Framework | |
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| Medical Anthropology Embraces the Ecological/Evolutionary Model | |
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| Expanding the Vision of Medical Anthropology: Critical and Interpretive Views of the Cholera Epidemic | |
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| The Political-Economy of Cholera | |
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| Political-Economic versus Ecological/Evolutionary Perspectives | |
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| Interpretive View of Cholera | |
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| Taking a Broader, Inclusive Perspective | |
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| Healers and the Healing Professions | |
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| Healing Roles: Organizing the Diversity | |
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| Authority of Healers | |
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| Authority in the Folk Health Sector: The Position of Peruvian Curanderos | |
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| Authority in the Professional Health Care Sector: The Case of Biomedicine | |
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| Challenges to Biomedical Authority | |
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| Authority of Biomedicine in Non-Western Countries | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Applying Medical Anthropology | |
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| Medical Anthropology in International Development: A Brief History | |
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| Work of Applied Medical Anthropologists in International Contexts | |
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| Applying Medical Anthropology in the United States | |
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| Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Applied Medical Anthropology under Attack | |
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| Personal Reflections | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Anthropology and Medical Ethics | |
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| Medical Ethics: A Comparative Framework | |
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| Medical Ethics beyond Biomedicine | |
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| Development of Bioethics in the United States | |
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| Social Sciences and Bioethics | |
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| Social Science: Out of the Closet | |
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| A Look Back and a Glance Ahead | |
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| Advantages of Medical Anthropology | |
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| Thinking Anthropologically about HIV/AIDS | |
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| Directions for Future Work in Medical Anthropology | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |