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    Health and healing in comparative perspective / [edited by] Elizabeth D. Whitaker.

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    • Title:Health and healing in comparative perspective / [edited by] Elizabeth D. Whitaker.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Whitaker, Elizabeth Dixon, 1962-
    • Published/Created:Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, ©2006.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Medical anthropology.
      Healing.
      Diseases.
      Public health.
      Racism.
    • Medical Subjects: Anthropology.
      Medicine.
      Health.
      Disease--ethnology.
      Complementary Therapies.
      Cross-Cultural Comparison.
    • Description:xiv, 589 p. : ill ; 26 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-589).
    • ISBN:0131273833
    • Contents:1. Backing into the future / Charles Leslie
      2. Menopause : lessons from anthropology / Margaret Lock
      3. Why not call modern medicine alternative? / Don G. Bates
      4. Concepts of arthritis in India's medical traditions : Ayurvedic and Unani perspectives / Judy F. Pugh
      5. Homeopathic medicine in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico : patients' perspectives and observations / Michael B. Whiteford
      6. epistemology of traditional healing systems / Russel Barsh
      7. Perturbing the system : "hard science", "soft science", and social science, the anxiety and madness of method / Joan Cassell
      8. Clown doctors : Shaman healers of Western medicine / Linda Miller Van Blerkom
      9. Shamanism and its discontents / Michael Fobes Brown
      10. Distal nursing / Ruth E. Malone
      11. Witnessing and the medical gaze : how medical students learn to see at a free clinic for the homeless / Beverly Ann Davenport
      12. Living at the edge of space / Christopher Wills
      13. co-evolution of people, plants, and parasites : biological and cultural adaptations to malaria / Nina L. Etkin
      14. vital role of the skin in human natural history / Bruce A. Cohn
      15. Why genes don't count (for racial differences in health) / Alan H. Goodman
      16. Evolution and the origins of disease / Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams
      17. Evolutionary health promotion / S. Boyd Eaton, Beverly I. Strassman, Randolph M. Nesse, James V. Neel, Paul W. Ewald, George C. Williams, Alan B. Weder, Stanley B. Eaton III, Staffan Lindeberg, Melvin J. Konner, Iver Mysterud and Loren Cordain
      18. Evolutionary health promotion : a consideration of common counterarguments / S. Boyd Eaton, Loren Cordain and Staffan Lindeberg
      19. Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases : the third epidemiologic transition / Ronald Barrett, Christopher W. Kuzawa, Thomas McDade and George J. Armelagos
      20. Health conditions before Columbus : paleopathology of native North Americans / Debra L. Martin and Alan H. Goodman
      21. comparison of health complaints of settled and nomadic Turkana men / Nanette L. Barkey, Benjamin C. Campbell and Paul W. Leslie
      22. resurgence of disease : social and historical perspectives on the "new" tuberculosis / Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla
      23. Implications of pandemic influenza for bioterrorism response / Monica Schoch-Spana
      24. Health implications of modern agricultural transformations : malaria and pellagra in Italy / Peter J. Brown and Elizabeth D. Whitaker
      25. Ecology and ethnomedicine : exploring links between current environmental crisis and indigenous medical practices / Charles Anyinam
      26. Cultural meaning, explanations of illness, and the development of comparative frameworks / Linda C. Garro
      27. mindful body : a prolegomenon to future work in medical anthropology / Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret M. Lock
      28. Breast cancer : reading the omens / Margaret Lock
      29. Refugee stress and folk belief : Hmong sudden deaths / Shelley R. Adler
      30. Deconstructing the placebo effect and finding the meaning response / Daniel E. Moerman and Wayne B. Jonas
      31. Possible efficacy of a Creek folk medicine through skin absorption : an object lesson in ethnopharmacology / Michelle M. Alexander and J. Anthony Paredes
      32. Cultural contexts of ebola in northern Uganda / Barry S. Hewlett and Richard P. Amola
      33. Health beliefs and folk models of diabetes in British Bangladeshis : a qualitative study / Trisha Greenhalgh, Cecil Helman and A. Mu'min Chowdhury
      34. Social scientists and the "new" tuberculosis / Paul Farmer
      35. Embodiment of terror : gendered violence in peacetime and wartime in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina / Maria B. Olujic
      36. Immigrants from Chernobyl-affected areas in Israel : the link between health and social adjustment / L. I. Remennick
      37. Partner notification in context : Swedish and Zambian experiences / Elisabeth A. Faxelid and Kristina M. Ramstedt
      38. Erasmus, syphilis, and the abuse of stigma / Christopher J. M. Whitty
      39. Under the shadow of Tuskegee : African Americans and health care / Vanessa Northington Gamble
      40. Does racism harm health? Did child abuse exist before 1962? : on explicit questions, critical science, and current controversies : an ecosicial perspective / Nancy Krieger
      41. Getting the numbers right : statistical mischief and racial profiling in heart failure research / Jonathan Kahn
      42. double puzzle of diabetes / Jared Diamond
      43. Ethics, epidemiology and the thrifty gene : biological determinism as a health hazard / Robyn McDermott
      44. Eating dirt / Gerald N. Callahan
      45. Using drug foods to capture and enhance labor performance : a cross-cultural perspective / William Jankowiak and Dan Bradburd
      46. state of mind of vegetarians : psychological well-being or distress? / Marjaana Lindeman
      47. Breastfeeding, breast cancer, and the sudden infant death syndrome in anthropological perspective / Elizabeth D. Whitaker
      48. Growth in indigenous and nonindigenous Chilean schoolchildren from three poverty strata / Patricia Bustos, Hugh Amigo, Sergio R. Munoz and Reynaldo Martorell
      49. Genders, sexes, and health : what are the connections, and why does it matter? / Nancy Krieger
      50. Female-selective abortion in Asia : patterns, policies, and debates / Barbara D. Miller
      51. Women from polygamous and monogamous marriages in an out-patient psychiatric clinic / Alean Al-Krenawi
      52. "The worst hassle is you can't play rugby" : haemophilia and masculinity in New Zealand / Julie Park
      53. Doing gender, doing surgery : women surgeons in a man's profession / Joan Cassell
      54. cow tipping point / David Ehrenfeld
      55. Keeping an eye on the global traffic in human organs / Nancy Scheper-Hughes
      56. Therapeutic and reproductive cloning : a critique / Finn Bowring.
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