Health Psychology : An Interdisciplinary Approach to Health: Global Edition (Paperback)

PART ONE:  Healers and Healing Traditions                                           
Introduction

   1.     Backing into the Future                                                                                                                                  
Charles Leslie
   2.     Menopause: Lessons from Anthropology                                                                                                
Margaret Lock
Healing Traditions

   3.     Why Not Call Modern Medicine Alternative?                                                                                         
Don G. Bates
   4.     Concepts of Arthritis in India’s Medical Traditions: Ayurvedic and Unani Perspectives                
Judy F. Pugh
   5.     Homeopathic Medicine in the City of Oaxaca, Mexico: Patients’ Perspectives and Observations  
Michael B. Whiteford
   6.     The Epistemology of Traditional Healing Systems                                                                                  
Russel Barsh
Patients and Healers

   7.     Perturbing the System: “Hard Science”, “Soft Science”, and Social Science, the Anxiety and Madness of Method  
Joan Cassell
   8.     Clown Doctors: Shaman Healers of Western Medicine                                                                          
Linda Miller Van Blerkom
   9.     Shamanism and Its Discontents                                                                                                                  
Michael Fobes Brown
10.     Distal Nursing                                                                                                                                              
Ruth E. Malone
11.     Witnessing and the Medical Gaze: How Medical Students Learn to See at a Free Clinic for the Homeless   
Beverly Ann Davenport
PART TWO:  Biocultural Approaches                                                     

Plasticity, Variation, Adaptation

12.     Living at the Edge of Space                                                                                                                       
Christopher Wills
13.     The Co-Evolution of People, Plants, and Parasites: Biological and Cultural Adaptations to Malaria
Nina L. Etkin
14.     The Vital Role of the Skin in Human Natural History                                                                            
Bruce A. Cohn
15.     Why Genes Don’t Count (for Racial Differences in Health)                                                                 
Alan H. Goodman
Evolutionary Medicine

16.     Evolution and the Origins of Disease                                                                                                      
Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams
17.     Evolutionary Health Promotion                                                                                                                 
S. Boyd Eaton, Beverly I. Strassman, Randolph M. Nesse, James V. Neel, Paul W. Ewald, George C. Williams, Alan B. Weder, Stanley B. Eaton III, Staffan Lindeberg, Melvin J. Konner, Iver Mysterud, and Loren Cordain
18.     Evolutionary Health Promotion: A Consideration of Common Counterarguments                          
S. Boyd Eaton, Loren Cordain, and Staffan Lindeberg
Prehistory and History of Human Health

19.     Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases: The Third Epidemiologic Transition                   
Ronald Barrett, Christopher W. Kuzawa, Thomas McDade, and George J. Armelagos
20.     Health Conditions before Columbus: Paleopathology of Native North Americans                         
Debra L. Martin and Alan H. Goodman
21.     A Comparison of Health Complaints of Settled and Nomadic Turkana Men                                    
Nanette L. Barkey, Benjamin C. Campbell, and Paul W. Leslie
22.     The Resurgence of Disease: Social and Historical Perspectives on the “New” Tuberculosis       
Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla
23.     Implications of Pandemic Influenza for Bioterrorism Response                                                           
Monica Schoch-Spana
Ecology and Geography of Disease

24.     Health Implications of Modern Agricultural Transformations: Malaria and Pellagra in Italy         
Peter J. Brown and Elizabeth D. Whitaker
25.     Ecology and Ethnomedicine: Exploring Links between Current Environmental Crisis and Indigenous Medical Practices        
Charles Anyinam
PART THREE:  Culture-Oriented Approaches                                       

Concepts and Perspectives

26.     Cultural Meaning, Explanations of Illness, and the Development of Comparative Frameworks    
Linda C. Garro
27.     The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology                            
Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret M. Lock
Mind-Body-Universe

28.     Breast Cancer: Reading the Omens                                                                                                          
Margaret Lock
29.     Refugee Stress and Folk Belief: Hmong Sudden Deaths                                                                      
Shelley R. Adler
30.     Deconstructing the Placebo Effect and Finding the Meaning Response                                          
Daniel E. Moerman and Wayne B. Jonas
31.     Possible Efficacy of a Creek Folk Medicine through Skin Absorption: An Object Lesson in Ethnopharmacology     
Michelle M. Alexander and J. Anthony Paredes
Explanatory Models and Social and Politico-Economic Contexts

32.     Cultural Contexts of Ebola in Northern Uganda                                                                                     
Barry S. Hewlett and Richard P. Amola
33.     Health Beliefs and Folk Models of Diabetes in British Bangladeshis: A Qualitative Study           
Trisha Greenhalgh, Cecil Helman, and A. Mu’min Chowdhury
34.     Social Scientists and the “New” Tuberculosis                                                                                       
Paul Farmer
35.     Embodiment of Terror: Gendered Violence in Peacetime and Wartime in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina   
Maria B. Olujic
Stigma

36.     Immigrants from Chernobyl-Affected Areas in Israel: The Link between Health and Social Adjustment      
L.I. Remennick
37.     Partner Notification in Context: Swedish and Zambian Experiences                                                   
Elisabeth A. Faxelid and Kristina M. Ramstedt
38.     Erasmus, Syphilis, and the Abuse of Stigma                                                                                          
Christopher J.M. Whitty
Race and Racism

39.     Under the Shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and Health Care                                               
Vanessa Northington Gamble
40.     Does Racism Harm Health? Did Child Abuse Exist before 1962? On Explicit Questions, Critical Science, and Current Controversies: An Ecosocial Perspective                                                                                                                                 
Nancy Krieger
41.     Getting the Numbers Right: Statistical Mischief and Racial Profiling in Heart Failure Research    
Jonathan Kahn
PART FOUR:  Special Topics and Case Studies                                       

Contrasting Perspectives on Metabolic Disorders

42.     The Double Puzzle of Diabetes                                                                                                                 
Jared Diamond
43.     Ethics, Epidemiology and the Thrifty Gene: Biological Determinism as a Health Hazard                
Robyn McDermott
Food and Food Use

44.     Eating Dirt                                                                                                                                                     
Gerald N. Callahan
45.     Using Drug Foods to Capture and Enhance Labor Performance: A Cross-Cultural Perspective   
William Jankowiak and Dan Bradburd
46.     The State of Mind of Vegetarians: Psychological Well-Being or Distress?                                     
Marjaana Lindeman
Infant and Child Health

47.     Breastfeeding, Breast Cancer, and the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Anthropological Perspective      
Elizabeth D. Whitaker
48.     Growth in Indigenous and Nonindigenous Chilean Schoolchildren from Three Poverty Strata    
Patricia Bustos, Hugh Amigo, Sergio R. Munoz, and Reynaldo Martorell
Sex and Gender

49.     Genders, Sexes, and Health: What Are the Connections, and Why Does It Matter?                      
Nancy Krieger
50.     Female-Selective Abortion in Asia: Patterns, Policies, and Debates                                                  
Barbara D. Miller
51.     Women from Polygamous and Monogamous Marriages in an Out-Patient Psychiatric Clinic      
Alean Al-Krenawi
52.     “The Worst Hassle Is You Can’t Play Rugby”: Haemophilia and Masculinity in New Zealand    
Julie Park
53.     Doing Gender, Doing Surgery: Women Surgeons in a Man’s Profession                                         
Joan Cassell
Biotechnology and Bioethics

54.     The Cow Tipping Point                                                                                                                              
David Ehrenfeld
55.     Keeping an Eye on the Global Traffic in Human Organs                                                                      
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
56.     Therapeutic and Reproductive Cloning: A Critique                                                                              
Finn Bowring