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Author:   Robert A. Hahn ,  Marcia C. Inhorn
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.067kg
ISBN:  

9780195374643

ISBN 10:   0195374649
Pages:   752
Publication Date:   14 October 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Anthropological Understanding of Public Health Problems 1: Vinay Kamat: The Anthropology of Childhood Malaria in Tanzania 2: David Van Sickle: Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in the Medical Marketplace of India: Implications for Effort to Improve Global Respiratory Health 3: Nancy E. Schoenberg, Elaine M. Drew, and Eleanor Palo Stoller: Situating Stress: Lessons from Lay Discourses on Diabetes 4: Carl Kendall, Aimee Afable-Munsuz, Ilene Speizer, Alexis Avery, Norine Schmidt, and John Santelli: Undersatnding Prgnancy in a Population of Inner-City Women in New Orleans-- Results of Qualitative Research 5: Mark B. Padilla: The Limits of Heterosexual AIDS: Ethnographic Research on Tourism and Male Sexual Labor in the Dominican Republic 6: Marcia C. Inhorn, Loulou Kobeissi, Antoine A. Abu-Musa, Johnny Awward, Michael H. Fakih, Najwa Hammoud, Antoine B. Hannoun, Da'ad Lakkis, and Zaher Nassar: Male Infertility and Consanguinity in Lebanon: the Power of Ethnogrpahic Epidemiology 7: Tom Leatherman and R. Brooke Thomas: Structural Violence, Political Violence, and the Health Costs of Civil Conflict: A Case Study from Peru Part II: Anthropological Design of Public Health Interventions 8: Joan D. Koss-Chioino: Bridges between Mental Health Care and Religious Healing in Puerto Rico: The Outcome of an Early Experiment 9: Jeannine Coreil and Gladys Mayard: Indigenization of Illness Support Groups for Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti 10: Namino Glantz: Using Formative Research to Explore and Address Elder Health and Care in Chiapas, Mexico 11: Mark Nichter, Mimi Nichter, Siwi Padmawti, C.U. Thresia, and Project Quit Tobacco International Group: Anthropological Contributions to the Development of Culturally Appropriate Tobacco Cessation Programs: A Global Health Priority 12: Merrill Singer, Greg Mirhej, Claudia Santelices, and Hassan Saleheen: From Street Research to Public Health Intervetnion: The Hartford Drug Monitoring Project 13: Stephen L. Schensul, Ravi K. Verma, Bonnie K. Nastasi, Niranjan Saggurti, and Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada: Sexual Risk Reduction Among Married Men and Women in Urban India: An Anthropological Intervention Part III: Anthropological Evaluations of Public Health Initiatives 14: Ellen Gruenbaum: Honorable Mutilation? Changing Responses to Female Genital Cutting in Sudan 15: Nicole S. Berry: Making Pregnancy Safer for Women around the World: The Example of Safe Motherhood and Maternal Death in Guatemala 16: Karen Marie Moland and Astrid Blystad: Counting on Mother's Love 17: Joao Biehl: The Brazilian Response to AIDS and the Pharmaceuticalization of Global Health 18: Elisha P. Renne: Anthropological and Public Health Perspectives on the Polio Eradication Initiative in Northern Nigeria Part IV: Anthropological Critiques of Public Health Policy 19: Eric A. Stein: Sanitary Makeshifts and the Perpetuation of Health Stratification in Indonesia 20: Stacy Lockerbie and D. Ann Herring: Global Panic, Local Repercussions: The Economic and Nutritional Effects of Bird Flu in Vietnam 21: Sandy Smith-Nonini: Neoliberal Infections and the Politics of Health: Resurgent Tuberculosis Epidemics in New York City and Lima, Peru 22: Adriana Petryna: Biological Citizenship After Chernobyl 23: Craig R. Janes: An Ethnographic Evaluation of Post-Alma Ata Health System Reforms in Mongolia: Lessons for Addressing Health Inequities in Poor Communities 24: George M. Foster: Bureaucratic Aspects of International Health Programs

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This book is oriented towards public health practitioners, and, as befits the supremely pragmatic orientation of that field, it is a very helpful compendium of the applications of medical anthropology to solve specific problems. As a collection of case studies, it is probably without peer. It is broader in orientation than either Trostle's Epidemiology and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1995) or Nichter's Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter (University of Arizona Press, 2008). * Doody's *

<br> This book is oriented towards public health practitioners, and, as befits the supremely pragmatic orientation of that field, it is a very helpful compendium of the applications of medical anthropology to solve specific problems. As a collection of case studies, it is probably without peer. It is broader in orientation than either Trostle's Epidemiology and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1995) or Nichter's Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter (University of Arizona Press, 2008). --Doody's<p><br>

<br> This book is oriented towards public health practitioners, and, as befits the supremely pragmatic orientation of that field, it is a very helpful compendium of the applications of medical anthropology to solve specific problems. As a collection of case studies, it is probably without peer. It is broader in orientation than either Trostle's Epidemiology and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1995) or Nichter's Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter (University of Arizona Press, 2008). --Doody's<br>

Author Information

Robert A. Hahn, PhD, MPH is a Senior Scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control in Atlanta, Georgia. Marcia C. Inhorn, PhD, MPH, is William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University.

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