Medical anthropology and the world system / Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser
By: Baer, Hans A.
Contributor(s): Singer, Merrill | Susser, Ida.
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TextPublisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003Edition: 2nd ed.Description: x, 429 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0897898451 (alk. paper); 089789846X (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Political anthropologyDDC classification: 306.461 | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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
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