Singer, Merrill
A Companion to Medical Anthropology
A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.
- Examines the key issues and current debates in medical anthropology
- Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s
- Written by leading international scholars in medical anthropology
- Covers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance abuse, infectious disease, and sexuality and reproductive health, and other topics
Keywords: Medical Anthropology, medicine, public health, global health, biotechnology, disease, AIDS, drugs, reproduction, policy
- Author(s)
- Singer, Merrill
- Erickson, Pamela I.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 576 pages
- Category
- Geography, Travel
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781444395280
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405190022
