TY - BOOK AU - Baer,Hans A. AU - Singer,Merrill AU - Susser,Ida TI - Medical anthropology and the world system SN - 0897898451 (alk. paper) AV - GN296 .B34 2003 U1 - 306.461 22 PY - 2003/// CY - Westport, Conn. PB - Praeger KW - Political anthropology N1 - 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 ER -