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Medical anthropology encompasses a wide range of perspectives as it seeks to understand human health and illness. An ideal core text for introductory courses, Medical A Biocultural Approach provides a current and accessible overview of this diverse and rapidly expanding field. Working from a Biocultural approach, Medical Anthropology examines the major health issues that affect most human societies, describing and synthesizing the ways in which biology, culture, health, and environment interact. It integrates up-to-date and relevant biological data with analyses of both evolutionary theory and the sociocultural conditions that often lead to major challenges to our health and survival. Authors Andrea S. Wiley and John S. Allen first present basic biological information on a specific health condition and then extend their investigation to include evolutionary, historical, sociocultural, and political-economic perspectives. Topics covered include healers and healing; health, diet, and nutrition; child health, growth, and development; reproductive health; aging; infectious disease; behavioral disease; stress, social inequality, and race; and mental illness. Each chapter features a vari

Author

Wiley, Andrea S., 1962-; Allen, John S. (John Scott), 1961-

Publisher

University of Southern California; Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford Univ Pr (Sd)

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195308839

Subjects

Sociology, Anthropology, Social Science

Rating

4.7 / 5 (106 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14