Baer, Hans A., 1944-
Medical anthropology and the world system / Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser - 2nd ed - Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003 - x, 429 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-424) and index
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 I : demon in a bottle -- Legal addictions, part II : up in smoke -- Illicit drugs : self-medicating the hidden injuries of oppression -- AIDS : a disease of the global system -- Reproduction and inequality -- Medical systems in indigenous and precapitalist state societies -- Biomedical hegemony in the context of medical pluralism -- The pursuit of health as a human right : health praxis and the struggle for a healthy world
0897898451 (alk. paper) 089789846X (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003052887
GBA3-V1317
Political anthropology
GN296 / .B34 2003
306.461
Medical anthropology and the world system / Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser - 2nd ed - Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003 - x, 429 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-424) and index
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 I : demon in a bottle -- Legal addictions, part II : up in smoke -- Illicit drugs : self-medicating the hidden injuries of oppression -- AIDS : a disease of the global system -- Reproduction and inequality -- Medical systems in indigenous and precapitalist state societies -- Biomedical hegemony in the context of medical pluralism -- The pursuit of health as a human right : health praxis and the struggle for a healthy world
0897898451 (alk. paper) 089789846X (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003052887
GBA3-V1317
Political anthropology
GN296 / .B34 2003
306.461