A Companion to Medical Anthropology
In a global environment of enormous health challenges, medical anthropologists offer important understandings of health systems and healing practices around the world. These leading international scholars assess our persisting problems of malnutrition, chronic and infectious diseases, and the influence of escalating levels of inequality, poverty, war, and genocide.A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the key issues and controversies in medical anthropology today. Singer and Erickson present a thorough assessment of a specific area of medical anthropology, including expert overviews of major topics such as environmental health, global…
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Weitere Autoren: Singer, Merrill (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-9002-2
- EAN: 9781405190022
- Produktnummer: 10977465
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 578 S.
- Masse: H25.0 cm x B17.5 cm x D3.5 cm 1'166 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 1166
Über den Autor
Merrill Singer, PhD is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut; and Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention and Professor of Anthropology, University of Connecticut. He has published over 200 articles and is author/co-author or editor of over 20 books. For his work in the field of medical anthropology, Dr Singer has been awarded a number of prestigious awards, including the Rudolph Virchow Prize, the AIDS and Anthropology Paper Prize, the George Foster Memorial Award in Practicing Anthropology.Pamela I. Erickson, PhD is Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut Formerly editor of the scholarly journal Medical Anthropology Quarterly, she is a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology, and has also served on the Governing Council of the Family and Reproductive Health Section of the American Public Health Association.
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