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A new updated edition of the first integrated and comprehensive textbook to explain the principles of evolutionary biology from a medical perspective and to focus on how medicine and public health might utilise evolutionary biology.

Medical anthropology. --- Human evolution. --- Medical genetics. --- Anthropology, Medical. --- Biological Evolution. --- Genetics, Medical. --- Anthropologie médicale. --- Homme --- Génétique médicale. --- Évolution.

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"Alternative medicine is not a fashionable new trend but an established cultural strategy, as well as a dynamic feature of mainstream contemporary medicine, in which elements of folk traditions are often blended with western scientific approaches. The Anthropology of Alternative Medicine is a concise yet wide-ranging exploration of non-biomedical healing. The book addresses a broad range of practices including: substance, energy and information flows (e.g. helminthic therapy); spirit, consciousness and trance (e.g. shamanism); body, movement and the senses (e.g. reiki and aromatherapy); as well as classical medical traditions as complements or alternatives to Western biomedicine (e.g. Ayurveda). Exploring the cultural underpinnings of contemporary healing methods, while assessing current ideas, topics and resources for further study, this book will be invaluable to undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology, sociology, psychology, and health related professions such as nursing, physical and occupational therapy, and biomedicine."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Medical anthropology. --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Anthropological aspects --- Alternative medicine. --- Alternative medicine --- Anthropologie médicale --- Médecines parallèles --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social --- Traditional medicine. --- Anthropology, Medical --- Complementary Therapies

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« J'ai connu la tentation du cliché », avoue le philosophe Alain Badiou en entrevue. Nous voilà rassurés : même les plus grands risquent de tomber dans les poncifs ou, comme l'expliquait Platon, dans une vision cynique et pauvre du monde. Ce livre pose le problème de l'obscurantisme lié à l'absence d'accès aux connaissances. Le lecteur est donc convié à une aventure de vérification. Des spécialistes internationaux de plusieurs domaines (santé publique, anthropologie, sociologie, histoire, économie) déconstruisent ici quelques idées reçues autour de thèmes très variés : sida, santé maternelle, reproductive et sexuelle, accès aux soins, offre de soins, environnement, nutrition… Le pari consiste à mettre en lumière l'importance d'une argumentation critique nuancée en examinant des idées largement véhiculées, c'est-à-dire celles qui ont cours dans le grand public. Par sa dimension éclectique, cet ouvrage est aussi divertissant qu'instructif pour lutter contre les clichés néfastes au progrès des Nations.

World health --- Public health --- Medical policy --- Medicine, Preventive --- Maternal health services --- Health services accessibility --- Medicine --- Santé mondiale --- Santé publique --- Politique sanitaire --- Médecine préventive --- Périnatalité --- Services de santé --- Médecine --- Research --- Accessibilité --- Recherche --- Global Health --- Health Policy --- Health Services Accessibility --- Stereotyping --- Vulnerable Populations --- Anthropology, Medical --- Santé mondiale. --- World health. --- Santé mondiale --- Santé publique --- Médecine préventive --- Périnatalité --- Services de santé --- Médecine --- Accessibilité --- Global health --- International health --- Medical geography --- International cooperation --- Public health. --- médecine --- sciences infirmières et service social --- Santé

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Prozak Diaries is an analysis of emerging psychiatric discourses in post-1980s Iran. It examines a cultural shift in how people interpret and express their feeling states, by adopting the language of psychiatry, and shows how experiences that were once articulated in the richly layered poetics of the Persian language became, by the 1990s, part of a clinical discourse on mood and affect. In asking how psychiatric dialect becomes a language of everyday, the book analyzes cultural forms created by this clinical discourse, exploring individual, professional, and generational cultures of medicalization in various sites from clinical encounters and psychiatric training, to intimate interviews, works of art and media, and Persian blogs. Through the lens of psychiatry, the book reveals how historical experiences are negotiated and how generations are formed. Orkideh Behrouzan traces the historical circumstances that prompted the development of psychiatric discourses in Iran and reveals the ways in which they both reflect and actively shape Iranians' cultural sensibilities. A physician and an anthropologist, she combines clinical and anthropological perspectives in order to investigate the gray areas between memory and everyday life, between individual symptoms and generational remembering. Prozak Diaries offers an exploration of language as experience. In interpreting clinical and generational narratives, Behrouzan writes not only a history of psychiatry in contemporary Iran, but a story of how stories are told.

Psychiatry --- Depression, Mental --- Youth --- Medical anthropology --- Depressive Disorder. --- Psychiatry. --- Anthropology, Medical. --- Antidepressive Agents. --- Adolescent. --- #SBIB:39A8 --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A77 --- Adolescents --- Adolescents, Female --- Adolescents, Male --- Teenagers --- Teens --- Adolescence --- Adolescent, Female --- Adolescent, Male --- Female Adolescent --- Female Adolescents --- Male Adolescent --- Male Adolescents --- Teen --- Teenager --- Youths --- Minors --- Antidepressant Drugs --- Antidepressant --- Antidepressant Drug --- Antidepressants --- Antidepressive Agent --- Thymoanaleptic --- Thymoanaleptics --- Thymoleptic --- Thymoleptics --- Agent, Antidepressive --- Agents, Antidepressive --- Drug, Antidepressant --- Drugs, Antidepressant --- Depression --- Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors --- Psychiatrists --- Psychiatrist --- Medical Anthropology --- Depression, Endogenous --- Depression, Neurotic --- Depression, Unipolar --- Depressive Syndrome --- Melancholia --- Neurosis, Depressive --- Unipolar Depression --- Depressions, Endogenous --- Depressions, Neurotic --- Depressions, Unipolar --- Depressive Disorders --- Depressive Neuroses --- Depressive Neurosis --- Depressive Syndromes --- Disorder, Depressive --- Disorders, Depressive --- Endogenous Depression --- Endogenous Depressions --- Melancholias --- Neuroses, Depressive --- Neurotic Depression --- Neurotic Depressions --- Syndrome, Depressive --- Syndromes, Depressive --- Unipolar Depressions --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Young people --- Young persons --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Dejection --- Depressive disorder --- Depressive psychoses --- Mental depression --- Unipolar depression --- Affective disorders --- Neurasthenia --- Neuroses --- Manic-depressive illness --- Melancholy --- Sadness --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Psychology. --- Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Etnografie: Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten --- Anthropological aspects --- Iran. --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- Sociology of culture --- Iran --- Depressive Disorder --- Anthropology, Medical --- Antidepressive Agents --- Adolescent --- Psychology --- Bipolar disorder

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Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe. Today, however, the region is courted by some of the most prestigious research universities in the world as they search for "resource-poor" hospitals in which to base their international HIV research and global health programs. In Scrambling for Africa, Johanna Tayloe Crane reveals how, in the space of merely a decade, Africa went from being a continent largely excluded from advancements in HIV medicine to an area of central concern and knowledge production within the increasingly popular field of global health science.Drawing on research conducted in the U.S. and Uganda during the mid-2000s, Crane provides a fascinating ethnographic account of the transnational flow of knowledge, politics, and research money-as well as blood samples, viruses, and drugs. She takes readers to underfunded Ugandan HIV clinics as well as to laboratories and conference rooms in wealthy American cities like San Francisco and Seattle where American and Ugandan experts struggle to forge shared knowledge about the AIDS epidemic. The resulting uncomfortable mix of preventable suffering, humanitarian sentiment, and scientific ambition shows how global health research partnerships may paradoxically benefit from the very inequalities they aspire to redress. A work of outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship, Scrambling for Africa will be of interest to audiences in anthropology, science and technology studies, African studies, and the medical humanities.

Medical anthropology --- AIDS (Disease) --- Medical assistance, American --- Research --- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome --- HIV Infections --- Anthropology, Medical --- Global Health --- International Cooperation --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- American medical assistance --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Treaties --- Foreign Aid --- Aid, Foreign --- Cooperation, International --- Treaty --- One Health --- One Health Initiative --- One Medicine Initiative --- Worldwide Health --- International Health Problems --- World Health --- Health Initiative, One --- Health Problem, International --- Health Problems, International --- Health, Global --- Health, One --- Health, World --- Health, Worldwide --- Initiative, One Health --- Initiative, One Medicine --- International Health Problem --- Medicine Initiative, One --- Problem, International Health --- Problems, International Health --- Medical Anthropology --- HTLV-III Infections --- HTLV-III-LAV Infections --- T-Lymphotropic Virus Type III Infections, Human --- HIV Infection --- HTLV III Infections --- HTLV III LAV Infections --- HTLV-III Infection --- HTLV-III-LAV Infection --- Infection, HIV --- Infection, HTLV-III --- Infection, HTLV-III-LAV --- Infections, HIV --- Infections, HTLV-III --- Infections, HTLV-III-LAV --- T Lymphotropic Virus Type III Infections, Human --- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome --- Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome --- AIDS --- Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Acquired --- Immunologic Deficiency Syndrome, Acquired --- Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome --- Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndromes --- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromes --- Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome, Acquired --- Immuno-Deficiency Syndromes, Acquired --- Immunodeficiency Syndromes, Acquired --- Syndrome, Acquired Immuno-Deficiency --- Syndrome, Acquired Immunodeficiency --- Syndromes, Acquired Immuno-Deficiency --- Syndromes, Acquired Immunodeficiency --- epidemiology --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Anthropological aspects --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Anthropology --- International Health --- Health, International --- Healths, International --- International Healths --- World Health Organization --- HIV Coinfection --- Coinfection, HIV --- Coinfections, HIV --- HIV Coinfections --- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes --- HIV-1 --- AIDS Arteritis, Central Nervous System --- Africa. --- United States. --- Anthropology, Medical. --- Global Health. --- International Cooperation. --- epidemiology. --- Africa