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| List of Profiles | |
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| About the Authors and Contributors | |
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| Preface to the Fifth Edition | |
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| The Ecology of Health and Disease | |
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| Studying Nepali Children: An Example of Medical Anthropology | |
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| Environment, Culture, and Health | |
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| Profile: Arctic Adaptations | |
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| A Working Model of Ecology and Health | |
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| Resources | |
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| Interdisciplinary Research in Health Problems | |
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| The Nature of Collaboration | |
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| Bio-Environmental Data | |
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| Profile: Cannibal Mourners | |
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| Clinical Data | |
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| Epidemiological Data | |
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| Social and Cultural Data | |
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| Becoming a Medical Anthropologist | |
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| Profile: Learning Field Methods in Costa Rica | |
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| Fieldwork Ethics | |
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| Medical Anthropology at Work | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Genes, Culture, and Adaptation | |
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| Human Variability and Adaptation | |
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| Adaptation Through Biological Evolution | |
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| Skin Color and Adaptation | |
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| Evolution and Human Immune Systems | |
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| Profile: Malaria and Agriculture | |
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| Evolution and Medicine | |
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| Physiological and Developmental Adaptation | |
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| Cultural Adaptation | |
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| Direct Medical Control Strategies | |
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| Variability and Change in Cultural Systems | |
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| Studying Adaptation | |
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| Profile: Local Differences in Iodine Deficiency Goiter in the Western Himalaya | |
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| Studying Adaptation to Illness and Disability | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Changing Patterns of Disease and Health | |
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| Culture as Environment | |
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| The Study of Population | |
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| Profile: Infant Survival in a Papua New Guinea Society | |
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| Life and Death in Hunter-Gatherer Camps and Farming Villages | |
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| Paleopathology: The Study of Disease in Prehistory | |
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| Life and Death in the Preindustrial City | |
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| Profile: The Black Death | |
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| Life and Death in Industrial Society | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Resources | |
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| The Ecology and Economics of Nutrition | |
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| Human Foodways and Nutritional Needs | |
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| Subsistence by Hunting and Gathering | |
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| Nutrition in Prehistory | |
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| Profile: Dry Bones: Health in Southwestern Prehistory | |
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| Subsistence in the Humid Tropics | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| Profile: Famine in Ethiopia | |
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| Industrial Agriculture | |
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| The Global Epidemic of Malnutrition | |
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| Breast or Bottle | |
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| The Anthropology of Food and Cooking | |
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| All That Goes in the Mouth Is Not Food | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Culture, Ecology, and Reproduction | |
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| Three Birth Stories | |
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| Well-Being in Pregnancy: Biological and Social Factors | |
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| Profile: Pregnancy Beliefs and Food Taboos in Malaysia | |
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| Care Providers in Pregnancy and Birth | |
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| Species-Specific Reproductive Patterns | |
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| Fecundity and Fertility | |
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| Profile: Using Anthropological Methods to Understand Condom Use for STI Prevention in the Inner City | |
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| Reproduction and Social Support Systems | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Stress, Illness, and Healing | |
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| The Concept of Stress | |
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| Understanding the Physiology of Stress | |
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| Profile: Stress, Social Support, and Health: The Dressler Research | |
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| Can Stress Induce Healing? | |
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| Stress and Psychiatric Disorders | |
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| Alcohol Abuse | |
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| Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | |
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| Populations Under Stress | |
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| Profile: Stress, Alcohol, and Demographic Change in Northern Siberia | |
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| Environmental Disasters as Stressors | |
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| Resilience: A Buffer Against Stress | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Health Resources in Changing Cultures | |
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| The Story of Ishi | |
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| Change and Adaptation | |
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| Models for the Study of Contact Processes | |
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| Repercussions of Culture Contact on Health in the Arctic | |
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| Profile: Culture Change and Inuit Health: Two Families | |
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| Health Care as an Adaptive System | |
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| Decisions About Care | |
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| Refugee Health Care | |
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| Anthropology and HIV/AIDS | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Costs and Benefits of Development | |
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| Spirit Possession in a Malaysian Factory | |
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| Globalization and Health | |
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| Water Systems, Disease, and Applied Medical Anthropology | |
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| Profile: The Medical Ecology of Cholera in Ecuador | |
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| Strategies for Improving Health | |
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| Health Disparities in Developed Economies | |
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| Paying the Costs of Industrial Development | |
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| Profile: Hazardous Waste and the Mohawks at Akwesasne | |
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| The Anthropology of Trouble | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Medical Anthropologists at Work: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Violence and Terror: The Work of Forensic Anthropologists | |
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| The AIDS Pandemic: Medical Anthropologists in International Health | |
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| Contemporary Medicine and Its Discontents | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Projects in Medical Anthropology | |
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| References Cited | |
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| Index | |