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Reflects changes in the medical field since the late 1980s with additions on AIDS, psychopathology, emotion, nutrition, and suffering.|A significant update of the 1990 classic state-of-the-art handbook on medical anthropology. With new chapters on AIDS, psychology and emotion, nutrition, and bioethics, the text reflects the changes in medical anthropological theory and practice since the late 1980s. Chapters from the first edition are revised to reflect current trends and to include recent references. This work demonstrates the creative expansion and diversity in the field, amidst efforts to explore the individual sickness experience in the context of local cultures and global political and economic dynamics.
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THOMAS M. JOHNSON is Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Family Practice at Southwestern Medical School. He is the author of Social Dimensions of AIDS (Praeger Publishers) and the coeditor of many journal articles. CAROLYN F. SARGENT is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. She is the author of Maternity, Medicine, and Power and several articles.
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- PublisherPraeger Publishers Inc
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0275937534
- ISBN 13 9780275937539
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages504
- EditorJohnson Thomas M.
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