ABSTRACT
The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the last ten years. Standing as an opposition approach to conventional medical anthropology, critical medical anthropology has emphasized the importance of political and economy forces, including the exercise of power, in shaping health, disease, illness experience, and health care.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section A|131 pages
Orientation
section Section B|46 pages
The Macro-Social Level
chapter Chapter 4|21 pages
Health-Related Issues in Socialist-Oriented Societies: Ideals, Contradictions, and Realities
section Section C|72 pages
The Intermediate-Social Level
chapter Chapter 6|22 pages
The American Dominative Medical System as a Reflection of Social Relations in the Larger Society
section Section D|48 pages
The Micro-Social Level
chapter Chapter 9|24 pages
Medical Hegemony, Biomedical Magic, and Folk Medicine: Reproductive Illness among Haitian Women
chapter Chapter 10|24 pages
Prophets and Advisors in African-American Spiritual Churches: Therapy, Palliative, or Opiate?
section Section E|50 pages
The Individual Level
chapter Chapter 11|28 pages
Confronting Juan García’s Drinking Problem: The Demedicalization of Alcoholism
section Section F|44 pages
Directions