Table of Contents

Preface: The Cultural Context of Medicine and the Biohuman Paradigm Medical Systems and the Uses of Choice Creativity in Illness: Methodological Linkages to the Logic and Language of Science in Folk Pursuit of Health in Central Italy by Lola Romanucci-Ross Aztec and European Medicine in the New World, 1521-1600 by Clara Sue Kidwell Phantoms and Physicians: Social Change Through Medical Pluralism by Libbet Crandon-Malamud Empirical Analyses of Non-Western Medical Practices and Medical Ecology Poisoned Apples and Honeysuckles: The Medicinal Plants of Native America by Daniel E. Moerman Herbal and Symbolic Forms of Treatment in the Medicine of The Lowland Mixe by Michael Heinrich The Evolution of Human Nutrition by Barry Bogin Zoonoses and the Origins of Old and New World Viral Diseases--New Perspectives by Linda M. Van Blerkom Malaria, Medicine, and Meals: A Biobehavioral Perspective by Nina L. Etkin and Paul J. Ross Embodied Mind; Metaphors of Pain, Placebo, and Symbolic Healing The Impassioned Knowledge of the Shaman by Lola Romanucci-Ross Anarchy, Abjection, and Absurdity: A Case of Metaphoric Medicine among the Tabwa of Zaire by Allen F. Roberts Physiology and Symbols: The Anthropological Implications of the Placebo Effect by Daniel E. Moerman Narratives of Chronic Pain by Robert Kugelmann The Effect of Ethnicity on Prescriptions for Patient Controlled Analgesia for Post Operative Pain by Bernardo Ng, Joel E. Dimsdale, Jens D. Rollnik, and Harvey Shapiro Modern Medical Inquiry and Culture Change Stress and Its Management: The Cultural Construction of an Illness and Its Treatment by Robert Kugelmann Science of Mind in Contexts of a Culture by Laurence R. Tancredi The "New Psychiatry": From Ideology to Cultural Error by Lola Romanucci-Ross The Aging: Legal and Ethcial Personhood in Cultural Change by Laurence R. Tancredi and Lola Romanucci-Ross The Extraneous Factor in Western Medicine by Lola Romanucci-Ross and Daniel E. Moerman "Medical Anthropology": Convergence of Mind and Experience in the Anthropological Imagination by Lola Romanucci-Ross, Daniel E. Moerman, and Laurence R. Tancredi Index

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Originally cited as must reading in American Anthropologist, this new third edition of the classic text contains new and updated materials. It is both a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of medical anthropology and a state-of-the-art reference work on Western and non-Western medicine.

About the Author

LOLA ROMANUCCI-ROSS is Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine and Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. A pioneer in the field of medical anthropology, she has written widely on the subject. She is the author of several other books, including One Hundred Towers: An Italian Odyssey of Cultural Survival (1991) and Mead's Other Manus (1988), both published by Bergin & Garvey, and the third edition of Ethnic Identity: Creation, Conflict and Accomodation (with George De Vos). DANIEL E. MOERMAN is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. He is the author of numerous articles on ethnobotany and the definitive work on the medicinal use of plants by Native Americans. LAURENCE R. TANCREDI is clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at New York University. He is author of numerous articles and books on legal issues in medicine and medical ethics. He is also in the practice of psychiatry in New York City.

Reviews

?The analytic and philosophical depth of this book should appeal to social scientists and higher-level medical anthropology students.?-Medical Anthropology Quarterly

"The analytic and philosophical depth of this book should appeal to social scientists and higher-level medical anthropology students."-Medical Anthropology Quarterly