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Critical Medical Anthropology
Merrill Singer and Hans Baer
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Critical Approaches in the Health Social Sciences Series, Ray H. Elling, Series Editor
ABOUT THE BOOK
The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview
to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over
the last ten years. Standing as an opposition approach to conventional
medical anthropology, critical medical anthropology has emphasized the
importance of political and economy forces, including the exercise of power,
in shaping health, disease, illness experience, and health care.
Since its emergence in the early 1980s, this perspective has struggled
to move medical anthropology away from its service sector subordination
to biomedicine toward a more holistic understanding of the causes of sickness,
the classicist, racist, and sexist functions of biomedicine, the interrelationship
of medical systems with political structures, the contested character of
provider patient relations, and the localization of patient/suffer experience
in political economic contexts.
The volume specifically builds on the extensive field research and health
activism of three medical anthropologists who have played pivotal roles
in the formation of critical medical anthropology, both as a perspective
and as an organized body of scholarly work.
Of interest to a wide spectrum of health professionals, Critical
Medical Anthropology, is designed for use as a supplemental text by
instructors who wish to provide a sense of the range of perspectives within
the field as a main text among instructors who have adopted the critical
perspective and wish to show its relevance to a broad array of social science
health issues.
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