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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Westview Press,
©2015.
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| Edición: | 6th ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.