Table of Contents

Preface
About the Authors
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Anthropology of Health
Chapter 2 What Health Anthropologists Do
Chapter 3 Understanding Health, Illness, and Disease
Chapter 4 Health Disparity, Health Inequality
Chapter 5 Health and the Environment: Toward a Healthier World
Chapter 6 Ethnomedicine: The Worlds of Treatment and Healing
Chapter 7 Plural Medical Systems: Complexity, Complementarity and Conflict
Chapter 8 The Biopolitics of Life: Biotechnology, Biocapital, and Bioethics
Chapter 9: Strategies and Visions for a Healthier World
Source Material for Students
Glossary
References

Index

About the Author

Merrill Singer is a professor of anthropology and senior research scientist at the Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention at the University of Connecticut.
Hans A. Baer is Principal Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
Debbi Long is a Senior Lecturer in Global Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Alex Pavlotski is a Teaching Fellow at Aukland University, New Zeland, and an honorary research fellow at Latrobe University in Australia