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| Synopsis of Contents | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments - Personal | |
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| Acknowledgments - Sources | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theories, Applications, and Methods | |
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| Medical Anthropology in Disciplinary Context: Definitional Struggles and Key Debates (or Answering the Cri Du Coeur) | |
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| Critical Biocultural Approaches in Medical Anthropology | |
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| Applied Medical Anthropology: Praxis, Pragmatics, Politics, and Promises | |
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| Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology | |
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| Medical Anthropology and Public Policy | |
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| Contexts and Conditions | |
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| Culture and the Stress Process | |
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| Global Health | |
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| Syndemics in Global Health | |
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| The Ecology of Disease and Health | |
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| The Medical Anthropology of Water | |
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| Political Violence, War and Medical Anthropology | |
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| Health and Behavior | |
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| Humans in a World of Microbes: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease | |
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| Sexuality, Medical Anthropology, and Public Health | |
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| Situating Birth in the Anthropology of Reproduction | |
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| Nutrition and Health | |
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| Anthropologies of Cancer and Risk, Uncertainty and Disruption | |
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| Generation RX: Anthropological Research on Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Lifestyle Regulation, Self-Medication and Recreational Drug Use | |
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| Anthropology and the Study of Illicit Drug Use | |
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| Healthwork: Care, Treatment, and Communication | |
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| Ethnomedicine | |
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| Medical Pluralism: An Evolving and Contested Concept in Medical Anthropology | |
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| Biotechnologies of Care | |
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| Social Interaction and Technology: Cultural Competency and the Universality of Good Manners | |
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| Biocommunicability | |
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| Anthropology at the End of Life | |
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| The Road Ahead | |
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| Operationalizing a Right to Health: Theorizing a National Health System as a �Commons� | |
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| As the Future Explodes into the Present: Emergent Issues and the Tomorrow of Medical Anthropology | |
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| Index | |