Insights from Medical and Mediterranean Anthropology
How are we to read and understand stories of Jesus healing the lame, deaf, blind, and those with a variety of other maladies? Pilch takes us beyond the historical and literary questions to examine the social questions of how the earliest followers of Jesus and ancient Judeans understood healing, what roles healers played, and the different ......
Sumud, meaning steadfastness in Arabic, is central to the issues of survival and resistance that are part of daily life for Palestinians. Although much has been written about the politics, leaders, and history of Palestine, less is known about how everyday working-class Palestinians exist day to day, negotiating military occupation and shifting ......
Sumud, meaning steadfastness in Arabic, is central to the issues of survival and resistance that are part of daily life for Palestinians. Although much has been written about the politics, leaders, and history of Palestine, less is known about how everyday working-class Palestinians exist day to day, negotiating military occupation and shifting ......
This text aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the methodology of population health research and an assessment of underlying theories of health and behaviour, taking an interdisciplinary approach. The contributors take a critical overview of the scientific issues involved, and emphasize the importance of theory-guided, multi-method approaches for research into the complex forces affecting health, health-related behaviour, and the effectiveness of health services. Throughout, the value of analytical models of population health is related to their utility in informing and building theoretical knowledge. This study is designed for professionals and researchers in public health, epidemiology, medicine and medical sociology.
The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of the arteries, but in hospital practice this one ......
These studies are concerned with the questions raised by literary works whose main themes revolve around contagious, epidemic disease and its social and psychological consequences.
The impact of the environment on disease causation and control has become a key item on the political agenda. Each contributor to this book addresses one of the contemporary debates concerning issues such as the interpretation of cancer clusters, the provision of care for the mentally ill and the likely progress of the AIDS epidemic. The book will ......
