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Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Preface. Introduction. 1. Anthropology and health. 2. Indigenous knowledge. 3. Illness among the tribals. 4. Nutrition. 5. Aids in India. 6. Drinking water and diseases. 7. The Shaman. 8. The healing Gods and Goddesses. 9. Paradigms of health contexts of marginalization. 10. Anthropologist's role. References. Index. This book is designed to deal with the critical themes and issues in medical anthropology. Medical anthropology is an interdisciplinary bio cultural discipline cutting across the boundaries of epidemiology sociology human genetics and community medicine including public health. Anthropological orientations in studying human behaviour related to health and illness offer useful insights to physicians researchers and paramedical staff working especially in remote tribal and rural areas. Anthropological sophistication fosters a questioning attitude towards medical practices modern as well as traditional which may be introduced in the un/under developed areas where the natives culture is taken for granted by the planners without adequate support from well controlled studies. Although this book is intended to be a source book for all the researchers and teachers of anthropology in Indian Universities and colleges at various levels all those who are working in the area of health illness and healing it is hoped would find it useful in some way or other. The last chapter on paradigms of health and the contexts of marginalization without doubt would be of interest to many others. 128 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Preface. Introduction. 1. Medical anthropology scope perspectives and methodology. 2. History of human diseases and medical inventions. 3. Anthropological epidemiology. 4. Medical pluralism. 5. Disease causation transmission and prevention. 6. The Shaman the divine healers and ethnomedicine. 7. The role anthropology in health and illness. 8. Medical statistics. Glossary of terms. References. Medical Anthropology is a branch of anthropology. It is a bio cultural discipline concerned with both the biological and socio cultural aspects of human behaviour related to health and disease. With the emergence of Medical anthropology the distinction between the usage of the terms disease and illness was made possible. This differentiation is a significant anthropological contribution. This book basically deals with the definitions meaning and scope of the subject matter in the introductory chapters. Subsequent chapters deal with the history of diseases medical inventions medical pluralism and the relation between anthropology and epidemiology besides ethno medicine the Shaman disease transmission models and medical statistics. This book is intended to be of interest to all those who are interested to learn about health disease and illness especially those in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology. 226 pp.