Medical anthropology in ecological perspective
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TextPublication details: Colorado West View Press 1989Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxiv, 434pISBN: - 0-8133-8610-1
- GN 296 .M3 1996
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Examines health and disease patterns in human populations from an ecological perspective. The book addresses new thinking about political ecology and critiques older theoretical approaches by integrating bio-cultural, environmental, and evolutionary approaches in the study of human health. AIDS is a prominent topic in this edition, as are other timely issues such as disability, medical pluralism, and health care seeking behaviour. Research by human biologists and paleopathologists illuminates the history and prehistory of disease, while the work of cultural and applied anthropologists addresses contemporary health issues. Also discussed are health profiles of migrant worker health, famine in the Horn of Africa, and paleopathology in the south-western United States.
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