A Companion to Medical Anthropology
ISBN: 9781444395297
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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Subjects: Social Science;

A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.

Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s Written by leading international scholars in medical anthropology Covers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance abuse, infectious disease, and sexuality and reproductive health, and other topics

Merrill Singer is Professor at the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut; and Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention.

Pamela I. Erickson is Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut.


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