Medical Anthropology and the World System A Critical Perspective

Name: Medical Anthropology and the World System A Critical Perspective
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ISBN: 9780897894241

ISBN-10: 0897894243

ISBN-13: 9780897894241

Edition: 1997

Authors: Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, Ida Susser

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Book details

List price: $83.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/30/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Hans A. Baer is professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Has has published nine books.



Preface



What Is Medical Anthropology About?



Medical Anthropology: Central Concepts and Development



Theoretical Perspectives in Medical Anthropology



The Social Origins of Disease and Suffering



Health and the Environment: From Foraging Societies to the Capitalist World System



Homelessness in the World System



Legal Addictions, Part I: Demon in a Bottle



Legal Addictions, Part II: Up in Smoke



Illicit Drugs: Self-Medicating the Hidden Injuries of Oppression



AIDS: A Disease of the Global System



Reproduction and Inequality



Medical Systems in Social Context



Medical Systems in Indigenous and Precapitalist State Societies



Biomedical Hegemony in the Context of Medical Pluralism



Toward an Equitable and Healthy Global System



The Pursuit of Health as a Human Right: Health Praxis and the Struggle for a Healthy World


Bibliography


Index