Baer, Hans A.,  1944- <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-424) and index 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0897898451 (alk. paper) 089789846X (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003052887 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA3-V1317 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political anthropology
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN296  / .B34 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.461