The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9781138612877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 424 str.

Lenore Manderson; Elizabeth Cartwright; Anita Hardon

Opis

This volume provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology, illustrated through a rich variety of case studies from diverse cultural contexts. An indispensible reference, The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology reflects the global diversity of the field with studies from settings located worldwide. An international group of authors address such topics as the clinic and the field, bioscience and medical research, infectious and non-communicable diseases, biomedicine, complementary and alternative modalities, structural violence and vulnerability, gender and ageing, reproduction and sexuality.

O autorze

LENORE MANDERSON is Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and Professor of Anthropology at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, USA.

ELIZABETH CARTWRIGHT is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Hispanic Health Projects and the Latino Studies Program at Idaho State University, USA.

ANITA HARDON is Professor of Health and Social Care at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and Dean of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.