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ISBN 10: 1538106477
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Author:  Merrill Singer University of Connecticut, Hans Baer University of Melbourne, Debbi Long RMIT University, Alex Pavlotski La Trobe University

The third edition of Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, provides students with a first exposure to the growing field of medical and health anthropology. The narrative is guided by unifying themes. First, health-oriented anthropologists are very involved in the process of helping, to varying degrees, to change the world around them through their work in applied projects, policy initiatives, and advocacy. Second, the authors present the fundamental importance of culture and social relationships in health and illness by demonstrating that illness and disease involve complex biosocial processes and that resolving them requires attention to a range of factors beyond biology. Third, through an examination of the issue of health inequality, this book underlines the need for an analysis that moves beyond cultural or even ecological models of health toward a comprehensive biosocial approach. Such an approach integrates biological, cultural, and social factors in building unified theoretical understandings of the origin of ill health, while contributing to the building of effective and equitable national health-care systems. NEW TO THIS EDITION All chapters have been updated or expanded. NEW: Chapter 8, “The Biopolitics of Life: Biotechnology, Biocapital, and Bioethics.”•Revised text style for crisper language and livelier phrasing. Added a brief signposting of chapter content at the beginning of each chapter and reviewquestions about the key issues and concepts at the end of each chapter. Expanded discussion of Zika, Ebola, gender and health, PTSD and psychological anthropol-ogy, geriatric health, the contemporary vaccine controversy, the internet and health, and thehealth impacts of fracking and nuclear energy development. Concluding chapter examines anthropologically informed strategies and visions for a health-ier world.

Table of contents:

1. **Introduction to Health Anthropology**  
   – Overview, Case Studies, Practical Contributions  
   – Health Inequality, Defining the Field, History of Health Anthropology  
   – Relationship to Other Disciplines, Theoretical Frameworks

2. **What Health Anthropologists Do**  
   – Research Approaches, Ethnography, Methods in Health Anthropology  
   – Case Studies, Multimethod Research, Collaboration in Practice

3. **Understanding Health, Illness, and Disease**  
   – Defining Key Terms, Disease vs. Illness, Cultural Perspectives  
   – Narratives, Disability, Medicalization, Health Discourse

4. **Health Disparity and Inequality**  
   – Causes and Impacts of Health Disparities, Cross-Cultural Perspectives  
   – Community-Based Solutions, Gender, Race, and Health

5. **Health and the Environment**  
   – Medical Ecology, Climate Change Impacts, Political Ecology  
   – Cancer, Water Issues, Infectious Diseases, Health Policy

6. **Ethnomedicine and Healing Systems**  
   – Indigenous and Folk Medicine, Evolution of Healing Systems  
   – Biomedicine, Pharmaceuticals, Case Studies

7. **Plural Medical Systems**  
   – Medical Pluralism, Case Studies from Bolivia and Java  
   – Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), Globalization

8. **Biopolitics of Life**  
   – Biotechnology and Bioethics, Biocapital, Reproductive Technologies  
   – Neuroscience, Genetics, Biotechnological Advances

9. **Strategies for a Healthier World**  
   – Global Health Visions, Eco-Socialism, Action in Health Anthropology

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