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Tables of Contents for Medical Anthropology and the World System
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Preface<BR>
What Is Medical Anthropology About?<BR>
Central Concepts in and the Development of Medical Anthropology<BR>
Theoretical Perspectives in Medical Anthropology<BR>
The Social Origins of Disease and Suffering<BR>
Health and the Environment: The Global System of Destruction<BR>
Hunger, Malnutrition, and Homelessness<BR>
Legal Addictions: Demon in a Bottle<BR>
Legal Addictions: Up in Smoke<BR>
Illicit Drugs: Self-Medicating the Hidden Injuries of Oppression<BR>
AIDS: A Disease of the Global System<BR>
Medical Systems in Social Context<BR>
Medical Systems in Indigenous and Pre-Capitalist State Societies<BR>
Biomedical Hegemony in the Context of Medical Pluralism<BR>
Towards an Equitable and Healthy Global System<BR>
The Pursuit of Health as a Human Right: Health Praxis and the Struggle for a Healthy World<BR>
References<BR>
Index