Table of Contents

* 1. The Ecology of Health and Disease * 2. Interdisciplinary Research in Health Problems * 3. Genes, Culture, and Adaptation * 4. Changing Patterns of Disease and Death * 5. The Ecology and Economics of Nutrition * 6. Culture, Ecology, and Reproduction * 7. Stress, Illness, and Healing * 8. Health Resources in Changing Cultures * 9. Costs and Benefits of Development * 10. Medical Anthropologists at Work: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

About the Author

Ann McElroy is associate professor of anthropology at University at Buffalo, SUNY.
Patricia K. Townsend is a research associate professor at University at Buffalo, SUNY.