Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 782 g
A Biocultural Approach
Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 782 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-530882-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Intended as the primary text for introductory courses on medical anthropology, this book integrates human biological data relevant to health and disease with both evolutionary theory and the social environments that more often than not produce major challenges to health and survival. Because students who take this fastest-growing anthropology course come from a variety of disciplines (anthropology, biology, especially pre-med students, and health sciences, especially), the text does
not assume anything beyond a basic high-school level familiarity with human biology and anthropology. The authors first present basic biological information on a particular health condition and then expand their analysis to include evolutionary, historical, and cross-cultural perspectives Among the
topics covered are nutrition, infectious disease, stress, reproductive health, behavioral disease, aging, race/racism and health, mental health, and healers and healing.
