Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader

Aaron Podolefsky,Professor of Anthropology Peter J Brown

ISBN 10: 0767404661 / ISBN 13: 9780767404662

Published by Mayfield Pub Co, 1998

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Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader 4th Edition by Aaron Podolefsky and Peter J. Brown

About the Author: Peter J. Brown teaches at Emory University. He is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences and also a professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health. He serves as the Director of Emory's Center for Health, Culture and Society. He has co-edited: The Anthropology of Infectious Diseases; Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda; Applying Anthropology (9th edition); and Applying Cultural Anthropology (8th edition). His research primarily deals with sociocultural aspects of malaria and its control, and he serves on a malaria-related Scientific Advisory Committee for the World Health Organization. He has an additional research interest on cultural issues in obesity and its related chronic diseases. Recipient of several teaching awards, he is a director of a new program "Global Health, Culture and Society" at Emory College.

Randall M. Packard is director of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. Peter J. Brown is co-director of the Center for Health, Culture and Society at Emory University. Ruth L. Berkelman, is a clinician and professor of epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Howard Frumkin is chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Applying Cultural Anthropology: An ...
Publisher: Mayfield Pub Co
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 4th Edition