First issued in paperback 2018

Incluye bibliografía e índice: páginas 393-406

Section A: Orientation.. Introduction.. Chapter 1.. Medical Anthropology and its Transformation.. Chapter 2.. The Critical Gaze.. Chapter 3.. Postmodernism Medical Anthropology: A Critique.. Section B: The Macro-Social Level.. Chapter 4.. Health-Related Issues in Socialist-Oriented Societies: Ideals, Contradictions, and Realities.. Chapter 5.. Studying Up: The Political Economy of Nuclear Regulation.. Section C: The Intermediate-Social Level.. Chapter 6.. The American Dominative Medical System as a Reflection of Social Relations in the Larger Society.. Chapter 7.. AIDS and the Health Crisis of the U.S. Urban Poor.. Chapter 8.. The Drive for Professionalization in British Osteopathy.. Section D: The Micro-Social Level.. Chapter 9.. Medical Hegemony, Biomedical Magic, and Folk Medicine: Reproductive Illness among Haitian Women.. Chapter 10.. Prophets and Advisors in African-American Spiritual Churches: Therapy, Palliative, or Opiate?.. Section E: The Individual Level.. Chapter 11.. Confronting Juan Garcìa's Drinking Problem: The Demedicalization of Alcoholism.. Chapter 12.. Cure, Care and Control: Agency and the Structure in the Clinical Encounter.. Section F: Directions.. Chapter 13.. How Critical Can Clinical Anthropology Be?.. Chapter 14.. Critical Praxis in Medical Anthropology.. Topic Index.. Name Index

The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the last ten years. Standing as an opposition approach to conventional medical anthropology, critical medical anthropology has emphasized the importance of political and economy forces, including the exercise of power, in shaping health, disease, illness experience, and health care. Inglés