Anthropology of Health and Healing (eBook)

Mari Womack (Autor)

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2009
367 Seiten
Altamira Press (Verlag)
978-0-7591-1861-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The Anthropology of Health and Healing is the first text to take an integrative approach to the discipline of medical anthropology. In this book, Mari Womack champions a practice of medicine that includes the maintenance of health as well as treatment of illness, emphasizing the importance of lifestyle and the life cycle.

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The Anthropology of Health and Healing provides the first holistic approach to the study of medical anthropology. Over the past two decades, medical anthropology has been the most rapidly growing subfield in anthropology, and a number of medial anthropology texts have been published, focusing primarily on public policy and health care delivery systems. Yet while Anthropologists have researched topics related to medical anthropology for over 100 years, here Womack thoroughly surveys this richly diverse field and provides an integrated approach that links together the biological, psychological, social, communicative, epidemiological, philosophical, historical, and developmental factors that shape health and healing.

Autor

Mari Womack is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and adjunct professor of anthropology at El Camino College.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Preface: A Tribute to My TeachersChapter 2 Introduction: The Anthropology of Health and HealingPart 3 Part I. The Psychobiology of Health and HealingChapter 4 Chapter 1. Models of the Body, the Self, and the Human ExperienceChapter 5 Chapter 2. Constructing Gender: The Body in Social ContextChapter 6 Chapter 3. The Biology of Psychology and the Psychology of BiologyChapter 7 Chapter 4. Metaphor, Labeling Theory, and the Placebo EffectPart 8 Part II. Maintaining Health and Healing the Whole PersonChapter 9 Chapter 5. The Human Life Cycle: Coming of AgeChapter 10 Chapter 6. The Human Life Cycle: The Reproductive YearsChapter 11 Chapter 7. The Human Life Cycle: Growing Old and Growing GoodChapter 12 Chapter 8. Lifestyle and HealthPart 13 Part III. Models of Diagnosis and TreatmentChapter 14 Chapter 9. Biomedicine and the Scientific ApproachChapter 15 Chapter 10. Restoring the Balance: Asian Models of Health and HealingChapter 16 Chapter 11. Calling on the Spirits: Shamans, Sorcerers, and MediumsChapter 17 Chapter 12. The Emerging Field of Integrative MedicinePart 18 Part IV. Contemporary Issues in Health and HealingChapter 19 Chapter 13. The Social Context of EpidemicsChapter 20 Chapter 14. Medicines, Herbs, and Dietary SupplementsChapter 21 Chapter 15. Public Policy and Health-Care Delivery SystemsChapter 22 NotesChapter 23 GlossaryChapter 24 ReferencesChapter 25 Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Medical Anthropology
• ISBN-10: 0-7591-1861-2 / 0759118612
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-1861-4 / 9780759118614