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. Illustrations ix Introduction xi Carolyn F. Sargent Thomas M. Johnson Part I Theoretical Perspectives The Therapeutic Process 3(18) Thomas J. Csordas Arthur Kleinman Political Economy in Medical Anthropology 21(20) Soheir A. Morsy A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent 41(30) Margaret Lock Nancy Scheper-Hughes Culture, Emotion, and Psychiatric Disorder 71(17) Janis H. Jenkins Clinically Applied Anthropology 88(25) Noel J. Chrisman Thomas M. Johnson Part II Medical Systems Ethnomedicine 113(18) Arthur J. Rubel Michael R. Hass Ethnopsychiatry 131(20) Charles C. Hughes Ethnopharmacology: The Conjunction of Medical Ethnography and the Biology of Therapeutic Action 151(14) Nina L. Etkin Studying Biomedicine as a Cultural System 165(18) Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes Part III Health Issues in Human Populations Disease, Ecology, and Human Behavior 183(36) Peter J. Brown Marcia C. Inhorn Daniel J. Smith Anthropology and Studies of Human Reproduction 219(16) Carole H. Browner Carolyn F. Sargent Alcohol and Drug Studies 235(17) Linda A. Bennett Paul W. Cook, Jr. Culture, Stress, and Disease 252(20) William W. Dressler Nutrition in Medical Anthropology 272(21) Sara A. Quandt Part IV Methods in Medical Anthropology Research Designs in Medical Anthropology 293(32) Pertti J. Pelto Gretel H. Pelto Epidemiology and Medical Anthropology 325(24) William R. True Part V Policy and Advocacy Bioethics in Anthropology: Perspectives on Culture, Medicine, and Morality 349(25) Patricia A. Marshall Barbara A. Koenig The Professionalization of Indigenous Healers 374(22) Murray Last International Health: Problems and Programs in Anthropological Perspective 396(29) Sandra D. Lane Robert A. Rubinstein References 425(118) Index 543(8) About the Editors and Contributors 551