The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the last ten years. Standing as an opposition approach to conventional medical anthropology, critical medical anthropology has emphasized the importance of political and economy forces, including the exercise of power, in shaping health, disease, illness experience, and health care.
By:
Merrill Singer,
Hans Baer
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 589g
ISBN: 9780415783767
ISBN 10: 0415783763
Series: Critical Approaches in the Health Social Sciences Series
Pages: 406
Publication Date: 14 August 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
SECTION A: Orientation Introduction Medical Anthropology and its Transformation The Critical Gaze Postmodernism Medical Anthropology: A Critique SECTION B: The Macro-Social Level Health-Related Issues in Socialist-Oriented Societies: Ideals, Contradictions, and Realities Studying Up: The Political Economy of Nuclear Regulation SECTION C: The Intermediate-Social Level The American Dominative Medical System as a Reflection of Social Relations in the Larger Society AIDS and the Health Crisis of the U.S. Urban Poor The Drive for Professionalization in British Osteopathy SECTION D: The Micro-Social Level Medical Hegemony, Biomedical Magic, and Folk Medicine: Reproductive Illness among Haitian Women Prophets and Advisors in African-American Spiritual Churches: Therapy, Palliative, or Opiate? SECTION E: The Individual Level Confronting Juan GarcÃa's Drinking Problem: The Demedicalization of Alcoholism Cure, Care and Control: Agency and the Structure in the Clinical Encounter SECTION F: Directions How Critical Can Clinical Anthropology Be? Critical Praxis in Medical Anthropology Topic Index Name Index
Merrill Singer is a medical anthropologist and professor in Anthropology at The University of Connecticut and in Community Medicine at The University of Connecticut Health Center.