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Figures, Tables, and Exhibits | |
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Special Features | |
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Preface | |
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Medical Anthropology's Perspectives | |
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Chapter Overviews | |
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Special Features of the Text | |
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Dedication | |
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The Author | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Applied Medical Anthropology And Health Care | |
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Culture and Health | |
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Culture, Ethnomedicines, and Biomedicine | |
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Cultural Competence in the Health Professions | |
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Concepts of Health | |
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Systems Approaches to Health | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Disease, Illness, Sickness, And The Sick Role | |
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Experience of Maladies | |
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Biomedical Assumptions About Disease | |
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Social Models of Maladies and Diagnoses | |
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Illness and Sickness Accounts | |
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The Sick Role and Sickness Career | |
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AIDS as Disease, Sickness, and Illness | |
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Health Beliefs and Explanatory Models | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Cultural Competence In Health Care | |
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Cross-Cultural Adaptations in Health Care | |
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Cultural Competence | |
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Anthropological Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Adaptation | |
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Concepts of Culture | |
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Interpersonal Skills for Intercultural Relations | |
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Specialty Cross-Cultural Applications of Medical Anthropology | |
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Using Culture to Care for Patients and Providers | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Cultural Systems Models | |
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Cultural Models for Health Assessment | |
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Cultural Systems Approaches to Health | |
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Cultural Infrastructure, Structure, and Superstructure | |
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Infrastructure | |
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Family Infl uences on Health and Development | |
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Understanding Worldview and Symbolic Resources | |
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Community Health Assessment | |
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Rapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation (RARE) | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Ethnomedical Systems And Health Care Sectors | |
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Popular, Folk, and Professional Health Care Sectors | |
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Popular-Sector Health Resources | |
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Folk Sectors and Ethnomedicines | |
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Professional Healers | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Six | |
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Culture and Personality | |
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Cultural Concepts of Normalcy and Abnormalcy | |
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Personality and Self in Indigenous Psychology | |
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Possession in Clinical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives | |
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Biocultural Approaches to Indigenous Psychology | |
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Ethnomedical Theories of Illness | |
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Cross-Cultural Ethnomedical Syndromes | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Medical- Ecological Approaches To Health | |
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Medical Ecology and Disease | |
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Evolutionary Adaptations and Health | |
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Genetic, Individual, and Cultural Adaptations to the Environment | |
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Epidemiology of Disease | |
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Racial and Ethnic Categories and Health | |
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Triune Brain Structures and Functions | |
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Evolution of the Sickness-and-Healing Responses | |
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Emotions in Biocultural Perspective | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Political Economy And Critical Medical Anthropology | |
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Political Economy Approaches to Health | |
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Critical Medical Anthropology | |
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Social Conditions as Causes of Disease and Health | |
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Social Networks and Support | |
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Macrolevel Social Effects on Clinical Health | |
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Changing Health Through Public Policy and Community Involvement | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Psychobiological Dynamics of Health | |
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Cultural Healing | |
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Religion, Ritual, and Symbolic Healing | |
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Stress Response | |
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Placebos and Placebo Effects | |
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Psychoneuroimmunology | |
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Metaphoric Processes in Symbolic Healing | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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The Shamanic Paradigm of Ethnomedicine | |
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What Is Shamanism? | |
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The Integrative Mode of Consciousness | |
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Neurognostic Structures | |
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Bases for Shamanistic Therapies | |
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Shamanic Roots in Contemporary Religious Experiences and Healing | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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References | |
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Name Index | |
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Subject Index | |