AltaMira Press
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978-0-7591-1043-4 • Hardback • January 2010 • $165.00 • (£127.00)
978-0-7591-1044-1 • Paperback • December 2009 • $93.00 • (£72.00)
978-0-7591-1861-4 • eBook • September 2009 • $88.00 • (£68.00)
Mari Womack is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and adjunct professor of anthropology at El Camino College.
Chapter 1 Preface: A Tribute to My Teachers
Chapter 2 Introduction: The Anthropology of Health and Healing
Part 3 Part I. The Psychobiology of Health and Healing
Chapter 4 Chapter 1. Models of the Body, the Self, and the Human Experience
Chapter 5 Chapter 2. Constructing Gender: The Body in Social Context
Chapter 6 Chapter 3. The Biology of Psychology and the Psychology of Biology
Chapter 7 Chapter 4. Metaphor, Labeling Theory, and the Placebo Effect
Part 8 Part II. Maintaining Health and Healing the Whole Person
Chapter 9 Chapter 5. The Human Life Cycle: Coming of Age
Chapter 10 Chapter 6. The Human Life Cycle: The Reproductive Years
Chapter 11 Chapter 7. The Human Life Cycle: Growing Old and Growing Good
Chapter 12 Chapter 8. Lifestyle and Health
Part 13 Part III. Models of Diagnosis and Treatment
Chapter 14 Chapter 9. Biomedicine and the Scientific Approach
Chapter 15 Chapter 10. Restoring the Balance: Asian Models of Health and Healing
Chapter 16 Chapter 11. Calling on the Spirits: Shamans, Sorcerers, and Mediums
Chapter 17 Chapter 12. The Emerging Field of Integrative Medicine
Part 18 Part IV. Contemporary Issues in Health and Healing
Chapter 19 Chapter 13. The Social Context of Epidemics
Chapter 20 Chapter 14. Medicines, Herbs, and Dietary Supplements
Chapter 21 Chapter 15. Public Policy and Health-Care Delivery Systems
Chapter 22 Notes
Chapter 23 Glossary
Chapter 24 References
Chapter 25 Index
The Anthropology of Health and Healing beautifully - and accessibly - draws upon new knowledge from such wide-ranging fields as biology, psychology, epidemiology, public health, health services research and human development, along with core insights from anthropology itself, to provide a comprehensive overview of how nature and nurture interact in diverse settings to shape individuals' own illness experiences, along with global patterns of health and disease. The book achieves rare balance in its attention not simply to what makes us sick but to what keeps us healthy, as well.
— Carole H. Browner, UCLA
The Anthropology of Health and Healing signals a shift from earlier conceptions of medical anthropology to a more comprehensive approach to illness and health. Writing with ease about allele frequency, cultural relativism, or the message of the Vedas, Mari Womack is a wise companion for this dazzling historical journey through the human and biological sciencessss
— Shirley Lindenbaum, CUNY
The Anthropology of Health and Healing signals a shift from earlier conceptions of medical anthropology to a more comprehensive approach to illness and health. Writing with ease about allele frequency, cultural relativism, or the message of the Vedas, Mari Womack is a wise companion for this dazzling historical journey through the human and biological sciences
— Shirley Lindenbaum, CUNY