Exploring Medical Anthropology

Joralemon, Donald

Donald Joralemon's widely popular Exploring Medical Anthropology offers the curious lay person a concise and engaging introduction to the field that presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion. Written in an accessible, jargon-free language, Exploring Medical Anthropology uses cases based on the author?s personal research experiences to explain four of the discipline's most important insights: 1) that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of disease, 2) that the political economy is a primary epidemiological factor, 3) that ethnography is an essential tool to understand human suffering due to disease, and 4) that medical anthropology can help to alleviate human suffering.

EAN

9780205442348

Publisher

Routledge

Published

22 April 2005

Pages

176