An edition of The anthropology of health and healing
(2010)
The anthropology of health and healing
by Mari Womack
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This book is the first text to take an integrative approach to the discipline of medical anthropology. In it, the author champions a practice of medicine that includes the maintenance of health as well as treatment of illness, emphasizing the importance of lifestyle and the life cycle.
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Table of Contents
The psychobiology of health and healing --
Models of the body, the self, and the human experience --
Constructing gender: the body in social context --
The biology of psychology and the psychology of biology --
Metaphor, labeling theory, and the placebo effect --
Maintaining health and healing the whole person --
The human life cycle: coming of age --
The human life cycle: the reproductive years --
The human life cycle: growing old and growing good --
Lifestyle and health --
Models of diagnosis and treatment --
Biomedicine and the scientific approach --
Restoring the balance: Asian models of health and healing --
Calling on the spirits: shamans, sorcerers, and mediums --
The emerging field of integrative medicine --
Contemporary issues in health and healing --
The social context of epidemics --
Medicines, herbs, and dietary supplements --
Public policy and health-care delivery systems.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-350) and index.
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