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Medical Anthropology Is One Of The Youngest And Most Dynamic Of The Various Subdisciplines Within Anthropology. Critical Medical Anthropology Has Evolved Into One Of The Major Perspectives Through Which Faculty And Students Study The Field: It Makes Connections Between The Macro-level Of The Capitalist World And The Micro-level Of The Patient's Beliefs About And Experiences With Disease. While Critical Medical Anthropology Draws Heavily On Neo-marxian, Critical, And World Systems Theoretical Perspectives, It Attempts To Incorporate The Theoretical Contribution Of Other Systems In Medical Anthropology, Including Biocultural Or Medical Ecology, Ethnomedical Approaches, Cultural Constructivism, Poststructuralism, And Postmodernism. This Is The First Textbook To Incorporate This Perspective. Medical Anthropology: Central Concepts And Development -- Theoretical Perspectives In Medical Anthropology -- Health And The Environment: From Foraging Societies To The Capitalist World System -- Homelessness In The World System -- Legal Addictions, Part 1: Demon In A Bottle -- Legal Addictions, Part Ii: Up In Smoke -- Illicit Drugs: Self-medicating The Hidden Injuries Of Oppression -- Aids: A Dise

Who reads Medical Anthropology and the World System : a Critical Perspective?

Author

Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser

Publisher

Bergin & Garvey; ABC-CLIO, LLC

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780897894241

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Anthropology, Medical

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24