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Medical anthropology in ecological perspective /

Integrating biocultural, environmental, and evolutionary approaches to the study of human health, this premier teaching text for medical anthropology has been updated to reflect the latest developments in the field.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McElroy, Ann
Otros Autores: Townsend, Patricia K., 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Westview Press, ©2015.
Edición:6th ed.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a About the Authors and Contributors; Preface to the Sixth Edition ; CHAPTER 1: The Ecology of Health and Disease; Environment, Culture, and Health; Anthropological Subdisciplines and Medical Anthropology; PROFILE: Arctic Adaptations; A Working Model of Ecology and Health; Recommended Readings; CHAPTER TWO: Research Methods in Health Problems; Anthropological Approaches to the Use of Medicinal Plants; Bioenvironmental Data; PROFILE: Cannibal Mourners; Clinical Data; Epidemiological Data; Social and Cultural Data; Recommended Readings. 
505 8 |a CHAPTER THREE: Human Biocultural Diversity and Health Evolution and Biological Diversity; Human Immune Systems and Defense Against Disease; Mutation, Genetic Change, and Disease Resistance; PROFILE: Malaria and African Agriculture; Evolution and Medicine; Skin Color and Adaptation; Recommended Readings; CHAPTER FOUR: The Prehistory of Disease; Paleopathology: The Study of Disease in Prehistory; Nutrition and the Transition to Agriculture; PROFILE: Dry Bones: Health in Southwestern Prehistory; Beyond the Skeleton: Icemen and Mummies; Daily Life in the Past: Clues from the Skeleton. 
505 8 |a Violence and Inequality; The Emergence of Cities; Forensic Anthropology: Contemporary Applications; Recommended Readings; CHAPTER FIVE: Emerging Diseases of the 21st Century ; The Ecology of Disease in the Anthropocene; PROFILE: The Medical Ecology of Cholera in Ecuador; Emerging Diseases in Aging Populations; Recommended Readings; CHAPTER SIX: Changing Population and Environmental Hazards Throughout Human History ; The Anthropological Study of Population; PROFILE: Stress, Alcohol, and Demographic Changes in Northern Siberia ; Environmental Trauma in Industrial Societies; Recommended Readings. 
505 8 |a CHAPTER SEVEN: Human Reproduction as a Biocultural Process; Evolutionary and Ecological Influences on Reproduction; Pregnancy; Care Providers in Pregnancy and Birth; Birth Alternatives; Maternal Mortality; Toward an Ecology of Birth; Recommended Readings; CHAPTER EIGHT: The Ecology of Nutrition ; Human Nutritional Requirements; Subsistence by Hunting and Gathering; Subsistence in the Humid Tropics; Agriculture; PROFILE: Local Differences in Iodine Deficiency Goiter in the Western Himalaya; Industrial Agriculture; The Anthropology of Food and Cooking; Food, Medicine, or Drug? 
505 8 |a Recommended Readings; CHAPTER NINE: The Global Economy of Food: Stuffed or Starved; Globalization and Food Systems; The Obesity Epidemic: Alternative Interpretations; Nutrition and Child Growth; Food Insecurity; PROFILE: Famine in Ethiopia; Recommended Readings; CHAPTER TEN: Stress, Trauma, and Mental Illness; Responding to Trauma: The Stress Concept; Understanding the Physiology of Stress; Can Stress Induce Healing?; Biomarkers of Stress; Stress and Psychiatric Disorders; PROFILE: Legacies of War; Culture- Bound Syndromes; Resilience: A Buffer Against Stress. 
500 |a Stress and Evolutionary Adaptedness. 
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