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Anthropology and public health : bridging differences in culture and society

Through 24 case studies from around the world, the volume provides a powerful argument for the imperative of anthropological perspectives, methods, information, and collaboration in the understanding and practice of public health
Print Book, English, 2009
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009
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xxi, 730 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780195374643, 0195374649
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Anthropology of childhood Malaria in Tanzania / Vinay R. Kamat
Diagnosis and management of asthma in the medical marketplace of India : Implications for efforts to improve global respiratory health / David Van Sickle
Situating stress : lessons from lay discourses on Diabetes / Nancy E. Schoenberg [and others]
Understanding pregnancy in a population of inner-city women in New Orleans
results of qualitative research / Carl Kendall [and others]
Limits of "Heterosexual AIDS" : ethnographic research on tourism and male sexual labor in the Dominican Republic / Mark B. Padilla
Male infertility and consanguinity in Lebanon : the power of ethnographic epidemiology / Marcia C. Inhorn [and others]
Structural violence, political violence, and the health costs of civil conflict : a case sudy from Peru / Tom Leatherman and R. Brooke Thomas
Bridges between mental health care and religious healing in Puerto Rico : the outcomes of an early experiment / Joan D. Koss-Chioino
Indigenization of illness support groups for Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti / Jeannine Coreil and Gladys Mayard
Using formative research to explore and address elder health and care in Chiapas, Mexico / Namino Glantz
Anthropological contributions to the development of culturally appropriate tobacco cessation arograms : a global health priority / Mark Nichter [and others]
From dtreet tesearch to public health intervention : the Hartford Drug Monitoring Project / Merrill Singer [and others]
Sexual risk reduction among married women and men in Urban India : an anthropological intervention / Stephen L. Schensul [and others]
Honorable mutilation? : changing responses to female genital cutting in Sudan / Ellen Gruenbaum
Making pregnancy safer for women around the world : the example of safe motherhood and maternal death in Guatemala / Nicole S. Berry
Counting on mothers love : the global polities of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Eastern Africa / Karen Marie Moland and Astrid Blystad
Brazilian response to AIDS and the pharmaceuticalization of global health / Joao Biehl
Anthropological and public health perspectives on the global polio eradication initiative in Northern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne
"Sanitary makeshifts" and the perpetuation of health stratification in Indonesia / Eric A. Stein
Global panic, local repercussions : economic and nutritional effects of bird flu in Vietnam / Stacy Lockerbie and D. Ann Herring
Neoliberal infections and the politics of health : Resurgent Tuberculosis Epidemics in New York City and Lima, Peru / Sandy Smith-Nonini
Biological citizenship after Chernobyl / Adriana Petryna
Ethnographic evaluation of Post-Alma Ata Health System Reforms in Mongolia : lessons for addressing health inequities in poor communities / Craig R. Janes
Bureaucratic aspects of international health programs / George M. Foster
Revised edition of: Anthropology in public health. 1999