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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 | |