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Introducing Health Anthropology: A Discipline in Action

Introducing Health Anthropology: A Discipline in Action

Singer, Merrill
Baer, Hans A.
Long, Debbi

Paperback

Public HealthAnthropology

ISBN10: 1538187280
ISBN13: 9781538187289
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Mar 26 2025
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.77 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

With a new title that reflects the broad scope and primary concerns of the field, Introducing Health Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, Fourth Edition, provides students with a first look at the dynamic discipline of medical and health anthropology. The narrative is guided by four unifying themes. First, health anthropologists are heavily involved in the process of helping to better understand and change the world through their work in applied projects, policy initiatives, and advocacy. Second, the book presents the fundamental importance of culture and social relationships in health and sickness by demonstrating that experienced illness and diagnosed disease involve complex biosocial processes and that resolving them requires attention to a range of factors beyond biology. Third, through an examination of health inequality, the book highlights the need for research and analyses that move beyond cultural or even ecological models of health toward comprehensive and holistic biosocial frameworks. Finally, the authors emphasize that physical and mental health are intimately related to the health of the environment on which humans depend for air, food, and the other resources that make life possible. Introducing Health Anthropology gives students the tools to rethink how to achieve healthier populations, effective and fully accessible healthcare systems, and a sustainable world.

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