9780195308839-0195308832-Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach

Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach

ISBN-13: 9780195308839
ISBN-10: 0195308832
Edition: Edition Unstated
Author: John S. Allen, Andrea S. Wiley
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 459 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780195308839
ISBN-10: 0195308832
Edition: Edition Unstated
Author: John S. Allen, Andrea S. Wiley
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 459 pages

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Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach (ISBN-13: 9780195308839 and ISBN-10: 0195308832), written by authors John S. Allen, Andrea S. Wiley, was published by Oxford University Press in 2009. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Cultural (Anthropology, Anthropology, Behavioral Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Cultural books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.49.

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Medical anthropology encompasses a wide range of perspectives as it seeks to understand human health and illness. An ideal core text for introductory courses, Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach provides a current and accessible overview of this diverse and rapidly expanding field. Working from a Biocultural approach, Medical Anthropology examines the major health issues that affect most human societies, describing and synthesizing the ways in which biology, culture, health, and environment interact. It integrates up-to-date and relevant biological data with analyses of both evolutionary theory and the sociocultural conditions that often lead to major challenges to our health and survival.
Authors Andrea S. Wiley and John S. Allen first present basic biological information on a specific health condition and then extend their investigation to include evolutionary, historical, sociocultural, and political-economic perspectives. Topics covered include healers and healing; health, diet, and nutrition; child health, growth, and development; reproductive health; aging; infectious disease; behavioral disease; stress, social inequality, and race; and mental illness. Each chapter features a variety of case studies and examples--current and historical, local and global--that demonstrate how a medical anthropological perspective can shed important light on a particular health condition. In addition, the text is enhanced by numerous tables, figures, review questions, critical thinking questions, suggestions for accompanying ethnographies, and a glossary to help students better understand the material. Throughout the text, the authors consider how a biocultural anthropological approach could be applied to more effective prevention and treatment efforts. They also highlight the ways in which medical anthropology has the potential to help improve the health of populations around the world.

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