Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures Topics - Volume 1; Cultures - Volume 2 (Hardcover, 2004)

Preface. General Concepts And Perspectives. Theoretical and Applied Issues in Cross-Cultural Health Research; E.J. Sobo. Cognitive Medical Anthropology; L.C. Garro. Critical Medical Anthropology; M. Singer. Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives; A. McElroy. Forensic Anthropology; D.H. Ubelaker. Illness Narratives; R. Loewe. Paleopathology and the Study of Ancient Remains; M.R. Zimmerman. Psychoanalysis and Anthropology; W.H. Kracke. Medical Systems. Bioethics; E.J. Gordon. Biomedical Technologies; M. Lock. Biomedicine; A.D. Gaines, R. Davis-Floyd. Medical Pluralism; H.A. Baer. Medicalization and the Naturalization of Social Control; M. Lock. Phenomenology of Health and Illness; G. Becker. Possession and Trance; E. Bourguignon. Shamanism; M. Winkelman. Political, Economic, And Social Issues. Disasters; J. Glittenberg. Health and Economic Development; A. Castro, P. Farmer. Homelessness; I. Glasser, R. Bridgman. Nutrition and Health; G. Roos. Post-Colonial Development and Health; S. Ferzacca. Refugee Health; P.A Allotey. Social Stratification and Health in the Westen Context; A. Sinha, T. Gibbs. Urban Poor: Health Issues; D. Easton. Sexuality, Reproduction, And The Life Cycle. Aging; J. Sokolovsky. Birth; C. Sargent. Breast Feeding; W.R. Trevathan. Child Growth; B. Bogin. Dying and Death; S.R. Kaufman. Female Genital Cutting; B. Shell-Duncan, Y. Hernlund. Immunization: global programs, local acceptance and resistance; A. Hardon. Population Control; R.J. Meier. Reproductive health; A. Whittaker. Health Conditions And Diseases. Alcohol Use; D.B. Heath, I. Glasser. Child Abuse and Neglect; J.E. Korbin. Cholera and Other Water-borne Diseases; L.M. Whiteford. Chronic Diseases of Aging; C. Hagan Hennessy. Culture Bound Syndromes; L.A. Rebhun. Culture, Stress, and Cardiovascular Disease; W.W. Dressler. Diabetes Mellitus; L.S. Lieberman. Diarrhea; E.A. Berlin. Disability/difference; R.P. Shuttleworth. Drug Use; J.B. Page. Emerging Infectious Diseases; Vinh-Kim Nguyen. Genetic Disease I: History and Mechanisms; L.L. Mai. Genetic Diseases II: Genetic Epidemiology of 150 Common or Informative Diseases; L.L. Mai. HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention; J.W. Carey, E. Picone-DeCaro, M. Spink Neumann, D. Schwartz, D. Easton, D. Cobb St. John. Malaria and Other Major Insect Vector Diseases; J. Coreil. Mental Disorders; A. Cohen. Mental Retardation; F.J. Meaney. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome(SIDS or Cot death); J.J. McKenna. Tobacco Use in Medical Anthropological Perspective; M. Singer. Tuberculosis Research and Control; R. Shrestha-Kuwahara, M. Wilce, H.A. Joseph, J.W. Carey, R. Plank, E. Sumartojo. Health And Illness In The World's Cultures. African Americans; E.J. Bailey. Amish; L.P. Greksa, J.E. Korbin. Argentine Toba; C.R. Valeggia, F. Tola. Badaga; P. Hockings. Bangladeshis; D.J. Holman, K.A. O'Connor. Baliem Valley Dani; L. Butt. British; I. Shaw, L. Woodward. Burmese; M. Skidmore. Cree; N. Adelson. Czechs; Z. Salzmann. Datoga; A. Blystad, O.B. Rekdal. Fore; D.J. Boyd. French; M. Lampl. Fulani; K.R. Hampshire. Garhwalis; S. Kedia. Garifuna; N.L. Gonzalez, G. Castillo. Greeks; E. Georges. Hadza; F. Marlowe. Haitians; R. Lawless. Han; Xingwu Liu. Hausa; M. Last. Hmong in Laos and the United States; K. Culhane-Pera, D. Cha, P. Kunstadter. Iroquois; B.W. Lex, T.S. Abler. Jamaican Maroons; G. Brandon. Japanese; D. Saint Arnault. Jat; S.K. Khanna. Lijiang Naxi; S. Davant White. Malagasy; J. Harper. Maori; M. Durie. Matsigenka; C. Izquierdo, G.H. Shepard Jr. Maya of Highland Mexico; E.A. Berlin, B. Berlin, J.R. Stepp. Malays; R. Provencher. Mongolian; D.J. Hruschka, B.A. Kohrt. Nahua; B.R. Huber. Navajo; J. McCloskey. Nepalese; G.G. Maskarinec. Northwest Coast; P.H. Stephenson, S. Acheson. Ojibwa; L.C. Garro. Oklahoma Choctaw; J.N. Henderson, L. Carson Henderson. Roma of the United States and Europe; A. Hartley Sutherland. Samoans; J.R. Bindon. Saraguro; R. Finerman. Shipibo; W.M. Hern. Sotho; N. Romero-Daza, D. Himmelgreen. Sudanese; R.M. Abusharaf. Thai; C. Lyttleton. Tongans; B. Burns McGrath. Trobriand; J. Bouton Crain, A.C. Darrah, L. Silipolakapulapola Digim'Rina. Tuareg; S.J. Rasmussen. Wape; W.E. Mitchell. Yanomamö; J. Kuzara, R. Hames. Yoruba; N.H. Wolff.