TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: A BIOCULTURAL APPROACH TO MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
1.1: WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY?
1.2: THE FOUR SUBFIELDS
1.3: APPLIED AND PRACTICING ANTHROPOLOGY
1.4: HOLISM, ANTHROPOLOGY’S DISTINCTIVE APPROACH
1.5: CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM
1.6: ANTHROPOLOGICAL CULTURE CONCEPT
1.7: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY METHODOLOGY AND THEORY
1.8: WHAT IS MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY?
1.9: ESTABLISHING TRUSTFUL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MARGINALIZED INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND RESEARCHERS/HEALTH WORKERS
Chapter 2: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH AND DISEASE
2.1: INTRODUCTION
2.2: BIOLOGICAL NORMALCY
2.3: THE SOCIAL ORIGINS AND EXPRESSIONS OF ILLNESS
Chapter 3: HEALERS AND HEALING
3.1: TRADITIONAL HEALING AND WESTERN MEDICINE
3.2: ETHNO-ETIOLOGY
3.3: TECHNIQUES FOR HEALING
3.4: MEDICAL MODELS
3.5: TKS AND ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY
Chapter 4: DIET AND NUTRITION IN HEALTH
4.1: PRE-AGRICULTURAL HUMANS
4.2.: HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF THE TRANSITION TO AGRICULTURE AND ANIMAL DOMESTICATION
4.3: SPECIAL TOPICS: DIABETES
4.4: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
4.5: OSTEOARTHRITIS
4.6: CANCER
4.7: SPECIAL TOPIC: THE PALEO DIET
4.8: STRESS
4.9: SYNDEMICS AND THE ECOLOGICAL MODEL
4.10: A BIOCULTURAL APPROACH TO FOOD
4.11: ADAPTATION: LACTASE PERSISTENCE
4.12: FOOD SECURITY IN GREENLAND
4.13: VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP: TRADITIONAL FOODS AND MEDICINES, ETHNOBOTANY
Chapter 5: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
5.1: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
5.2: INDIGENOUS BIRTH
5.3: ETHNOGRAPHER’S DILEMMA: RESEARCHING BIRTHING PRACTICES IN INDIA
5.4: INFANT FEEDING TEACHINGS FROM INDIGENOUS GRANDMOTHERS: GENERATING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH SHARING CIRCLES
5.5: CONTROLLING NATIONAL BORDERS BY CONTROLLING REPRODUCTION
Chapter 6: AGING
6.1: KAMZORI: AGING, CARE, AND ALIENATION IN THE POST-PASTORAL HIMALAYA
Chapter 7: INFECTIOUS DISEASES
7.1: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE BIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
7.2: BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES
7.3: ADAPTATION: INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Chapter 8: MENTAL HEALTH AND ILLNESS
8.1: THE EXPERIENCE OF ILLNESS IN PLACE
8.2: CULTURE-BOUND SYNDROMES
8.3: THE IMPACT OF CULTURAL DETERMINANTS ON INDIGENOUS SAMI ADOLESCENTS’ WELL-BEING AND MENTAL HEALTH
Chapter 9: GLOBAL HEALTH
9.1: INTRODUCTION
9.2: TRADITIONAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS PERCEPTIONS, HERBAL TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF HIV AND RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS
9.3: SHADOWLANDS AND DARK CORNERS: AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF LIGHT AND ZOONOSIS
9.4: ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO MEDICAL HUMANITARIANISM
Chapter 10: CRITICAL APPROACH
10.1: THEORIZING GLOBAL HEALTH
10.2: RACE, RACISM AND ANTHROPOLOGY: DECOLONIZING HEALTH INEQUALITY IN A TIME OF COVID-19
10.3: NEOCOLONIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY: PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE AND THE RIGHT TO HEALTH IN GUATEMALA
Chapter 11: PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY
11.1: INTRODUCTION
11.2: PAUL FARMER
11.3: ETHICAL DECISION MAKING IN GLOBAL HEALTH: WHEN CULTURES CLASS
11.4: CASE STUDY: AMAZONIANS IN BOLIVIA
