This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy
internationally. The authors reveal that in light of prevailing social inequalities, health …

In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world's leading medical
anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science …

118 the unnatural history of disease, are clear in this selection. This type of criticism is not
common in biomedicine and public health—both of which tend to be thought of as apolitical …

As epidemiology has expanded its concerns in this century to encompass the full range of
human disease and disorder, researchers have been forced to grapple with complex …

The missing link in medical anthropology: The political economy of health Page 1 The Missing
Link in Medical Anthropology: The Political Economy of Health Soheir Morsy Philip Singer, ed …

Despite recent calls for greater collaboration between medical anthropologists and
epidemiologists, examples of synthetic, interdisciplinary anthropological-epidemiological …

Understanding the Sociology of Health continues to offer an easy to read introduction to
sociological theories essential to understanding the current health climate. Up-to-date with …

What is the relationship between health, human nature, and human needs? The impact of
social change on communities? The processes by which communities confront and …

In the domain of health, not only are the raw effects of economic, social, and medical
inequalities continually devastating, but novel processes of reconfiguring illness experience …