Introducing Medical Anthropology - A Discipline in Action Singer MerrillPevná vazba
Introducing Medical Anthropology - A Discipline in Action Singer MerrillPevná vazba The third edition of Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, provides students with a first…
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Introducing Medical Anthropology - A Discipline in Action Singer MerrillPevná vazba
The third edition of Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, provides students with a first exposure to the growing field of medical and health anthropology. First, health-oriented anthropologists are very involved in the process of helping, to varying degrees, to change the world around them through their work in applied projects, policy initiatives, and advocacy. The narrative is guided by unifying themes.
Third, through an examination of the issue of health inequality, this book underlines the need for an analysis that moves beyond cultural or even ecological models of health toward a comprehensive Second, the authors present the fundamental importance of culture and social relationships in health and illness by demonstrating that illness and disease involve complex biosocial processes and that resolving them requires attention to a range of factors beyond biology.