Table of Contents

Introduction: What is Medical Anthropology?P. J. Brown, R. Barrett, and M. Padilla, “Medical Anthropologies: An Introduction to the Fields”PART I: UNDERSTANDING MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGYBiosocial ApproachesEvolution, Health, and MedicineS. B. Eaton, M. Shostak, and M. Konner, “Stone-agers in the Fast Lane” L. Oliwenstein, “Dr. Darwin”Human Biological VariationR. Martorell, “Body Size, Adaptation, and Function” C. Ritenbaugh and C. S. Goodby, “Beyond the Thrifty Gene: Metabolic Implications of Prehistoric Migration into the New World” M. Boutte, “Genetic Prophecy: Promises and Perils for Late-Onset Diseases”Bioarchaeology and HistoryG. Armelagos, “Health and Disease in Prehistoric Populations in Transition” T. McKeown, “Determinants of Health”Cultural and Political Ecologies of DiseaseP. J. Brown, “Cultural Adaptations to Endemic Malaria in Sardinia” R. Desowitz, “The Fly That Would Be King” P. Farmer, “Social Inequalities and Emerging Infectious Diseases”Cultural ApproachesBelief and Ethnomedical SystemsG. M. Foster, “Disease Etiologies in Nonwestern Medical Systems” K. Finkler, “Sacred Healing and Biomedicine Compared” C. Levi-Strauss, “The Sorcerer and His Magic” R. Hahn, “The Nocebo Phenomenon: Concept, Evidence, and Implications for Public Health”The Social Construction of Illness and the Social Production of HealthN. Waxler, “Learning to be a Leper: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Illness” L. Clark, “Gender and Generation in Poor Women's Household Health Production Experience”Healers in Cross-Cultural PerspectiveM. F. Brown, “The Dark Side of Shaman” M. Konner, “Transcendental Medication” P. Singer, “‘Psychic Surgery’: Close Observation of a Popular Healing Practice”Culture, Illness, and Mental HealthA. Kleinman, “Do Psychiatric Disorders Differ in Different Cultures?” A. Rubel, “The Epidemiology of a Folk Illness: Susto in Hispanic America”Critical Medical AnthropologyN. Scheper-Hughes and M. M. Lock, “The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology” M. Singer, “Beyond the Ivory Tower: Critical Praxis in Medical Anthropology”PART II: APPLYING MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGYCase Studies in Explanatory ModelsW. Dressler, “Ethnomedical Beliefs and Patient Adherence to a Treatment Regimen: A St. Lucian Example” Centers for Disease Control: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, “Health Beliefs and Compliance with Prescribed Medication among Black Women—New Orleans 1985-86” M. Trawick, “An Ayurvedic Theory of Cancer” A. Harwood, “The Hot-Cold Theory of Disease: Implications for the Treatment of Puerto-Rican Patients”Ethnicity and Health CareR. A. Hahn, “The State of Federal Health Statistics on Racial and Ethnic Groups” M. S. Bates and W. T. Edwards, “Ethnic Variations in the Chronic Pain Experience” R. Trotter, “A Case of Lead Poisoning from Folk Remedies” M. Singer et al., “Why Does Juan Garcia Have a Drinking Problem?” E. A. Berlin and W. C. Fowkes, “A Teaching Framework for Cross-Cultural Health Care”Stigma and Coping with Chronic IllnessG. Becker, “Coping with Stigma: Lifelong Adaptation of Deaf People” M. C. Inhorn, “Genital Herpes: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Being Discreditable in American Society” R. W. Murphy, “The Damaged Self” P. Farmer and A. Kleinmen, “AIDS as Human Suffering”Gender and Women's HealthE. Martin, “Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause” C. West, “Routine Complications: Troubles with Talk between Doctors and Patients” R. Rapp, “Accounting for Amniocentesis” N. Scheper-Hughes, “Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking”Culture and Nutrition: Fat and ThinK. A. Dettwyler, “The Biocultural Approach in Nutritional Anthropology: Case Studies of Malnutrition in Mali” P. J. Brown and M. Konner, “An Anthropological Perspective on Obesity”International Health Issues and ProgramM. Nichter and E. Cartwright, “Saving the Children for the Tobacco Industry” C. Kendall, D. Foote, and R. Martorell, “Ethnomedicine and Oral Rehydration Therapy” K. Heggenhougen, “The Epidemiology of Functional Apartheid and Human Rights Abuses”

About the Author

Peter J. Brown teaches at Emory University. He is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences and also a professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health. He serves as the Director of Emorys Center for Health, Culture and Society. He has co-edited : The Anthropology of Infectious Diseases; Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda; Applying Anthropology (9th edition); and Applying Cultural Anthropology (8th edition). His research primarily deals with sociocultural aspects of malaria and its control, and he serves on a malaria-related Scientific Advisory Committee for the World Health Organization. He has an additional research interest on cultural issues in obesity and its related chronic diseases. Recipient of several teaching awards, he is a director of a new program "Global Health, Culture and Society" at Emory College.