A Companion to Medical Anthropology

| Contents: Re/inventing medical anthropology : definitional struggles and key debates (or: answering the “cri du coeur”) / Elisa J. Sobo -- Critical biocultual approaches to health and illness / Tom Leatherman and Alan H. Goodman -- Applied medical anthropology : praxis, pragmatics, politics, and promises / Robert T. Trotter, II -- Research design and methods in medical anthropology / Clarence C. Gravlee -- Culture and the stress process / William W. Dressler -- Global health / Craig R. Janes, Jennifer A. Liu & Kitty K. Corbett -- Syndemics in global health / Merrill Singer & Emily Mendenhall -- The ecology of health and disease / Patricia K. Townsend -- The medical anthropology of water and sanitation / E. Christian Wells & Linda M. Whiteford -- Medical anthropology of political violence and war / Barbara Rylko- Bauer -- Medical anthropology at the end of life / Ron Barrett -- The anthropology of reproduction / Elise Andaya & Mounia El Kotni -- Anthropological approaches to migration and health / Heide Castañeda -- Current approaches to nutritional health in medical anthropology / Deven Gray, David A Himmelgreen, Nancy Romero Daza & Charlotte Noble -- Cancers’ multiplicities : anthropologies of interventions and care / Lenore Manderson -- Anthropology and the study of illicit drug use / J. Bryan Page -- Revisiting generation Rx : emerging trends in pharmaceutical enhancement, lifestyle regulation, self-medication, and recreational drug use / Gilbert Quintero & Mark Nichter -- Ethnomedicines / Marsha B. Quinlan -- Medical pluralism : an evolving and contested concept in medical anthropology / Hans A. Baer -- Biotechnologies of care / Ruth Fitzgerald & Julie Park -- Medicine : colonial, postcolonial, or decolonial? / César E. Abadía-Barrero -- The politics of communicability / Charles L. Briggs -- When workers’ health is public health : applying medical anthropology to analyze the structural complicity of state public health policies as COVID-19 spread in meat-processing plants and minority communities / Sandy Smith-Nonini -- Climate change and health : anthropology & beyond / Merrill Singer, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet and Ashley L. Graham.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021041563 (print) | LCCN 2021041564 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119718901 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119718925 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119718949 (epub) | ISBN 9781119718963 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Medical anthropology.

Classification: LCC GN296 .C68 2022 (print) | LCC GN296 (ebook) | DDC 306.4/61--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021041563LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021041564

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We dedicate this book to our children, who, each in their own way, embody our hopes for a better, more peaceful, and healthier world:

Jacob Singer, Elyse Singer, Jacob Wildwood, Malena I. Abadia, and Laila G. Abadia

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2 Series page

3 Title page

4 Copyright

5 Dedication

6 Notes on Contributors

7 Introduction

8 Part I: Theories, Applications, and Methods 1 Re/Inventing Medical Anthropology: Definitional Struggles and Key Debates (Or: Answering the Cri Du Coeur ) 2 Critical Biocultural Approaches to Health and Illness 3 Applied Medical Anthropology: Praxis, Pragmatics, Politics, and Promises 4 Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology

9 Part II: Contexts and Conditions 5 Culture and the Stress Process 6 Global Health 7 Syndemics in Global Health 8 The Ecology of Health and Disease 9 The Medical Anthropology of Water and Sanitation 10 Medical Anthropology of Political Violence and War 11 Medical Anthropology at the End of Life

10 Part III: Health and Behavior 12 The Anthropology of Reproduction 13 Anthropological Approaches to Migration and Health 14 Current Approaches to Nutritional Health in Medical Anthropology 15 Cancers’ Multiplicities: Anthropologies of Interventions and Care 16 Anthropology and the Study of Illicit Drug Use 17 Revisiting Generation Rx: Emerging Trends in Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Lifestyle Regulation, Self-Medication, and Recreational Drug Use

11 Part IV: Healthwork: Care, Treatment, and Communication 18 Ethnomedicines: Traditions of Medical Knowledge 19 Medical Pluralism: An Evolving and Contested Concept in Medical Anthropology 20 Biotechnologies of Care 21 Medicine: Colonial, Postcolonial, or Decolonial? 22 The Politics of Communicability

12 Part V: The Road Ahead 23 When Workers’ Health is Public Health: The Structural Complicity of State Public Health Policies on Covid-19 Spread in Meat-Processing Plants and Minority Communities 24 Climate Change and Health: Anthropology and Beyond

13 Index

14 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Qualitative and quantitative data...Figure 4.2 A continuum of research questions...Figure 4.3 Inductive and deductive modes...Figure 4.4 Basic research design options...Figure 4.5 Steps in analyzing explanatory models...

2 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 Transmission pathways of fecal-oral disease...

3 Chapter 19Figure 19.1 The USA dominative medical system...

4 Chapter 23Figure 23.1 Covid-19 infection rates by zip...Figure 23.2 Rise in Covid-19 infection rates...

1 Chapter 4 Table 4.1 Basic probability and nonprobability... Table 4.2 Stratified quota sampling design... Table 4.3 Commonly used methods of data collection...

2 Chapter 9Table 9.1 Categories of water, sanitation...

3 Chapter 18Table 18.1 Notable Culture-Specific...

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3 Title page

4 Copyright

5 Dedication

6 Table of Contents

7 Notes on Contributors

8 Begin Reading

9 Index

10 End User License Agreement

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