Drawing on the author's research on Peruvian shamanism and organ transplantation in the United States, this book is a concise and readable introduction to medical anthropology. The author uses ethnographic material from South America and the U.S. to illustrate his key points: 1) that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of disease; 2) that the political economy is a primary epidemiological factor; 3) that ethnography is an essential tool to understand human suffering due to disease; and 4) that medical anthropology can help to alleviate human suffering.  Major topics include biological, social, and cultural interconnections in medicine and disease; anthropological questions and methods in the study of sickness and healing; healers and the healing professions; applications of medical anthropology; and ethical issues. For anyone interested in learning how biology and culture interact in the study and treatment of disease.

Exploring Medical Anthropology

Politics & Social Sciences

Joralemon, Donald

Anthropology

Allyn&Bacon

This widely adopted text is a concise and engaging introduction to the field that presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence. 
Written in an accessible, jargon-free language, Exploring Medical Anthropology’s concise length leaves room for instructors to supplement it with monographs of their own choosing. Concrete cases and the author’s personal research experiences are utilized to explain some of the discipline’s most important insights; such as that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of disease and that medical anthropology can help to alleviate human suffering. An extensive glossary facilitates student learning of concepts and terms, while a list of suggested readings at the end of each chapter and an extensive bibliography encourage further exploration.

Exploring Medical Anthropology (2nd Edition)

This widely adopted text is a concise and engaging introduction to the field that presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence. Written in an accessible, jargon-free language, Exploring Medical Anthropology’s concise length leaves room for instructors to supplement it with monographs of their own choosing. Concrete cases and the author’s personal research experiences are utilized to explain some of the discipline’s most important insights; such as that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of disease and that medical anthropology can help to alleviate human suffering. An extensive glossary facilitates student learning of concepts and terms, while a list of suggested readings at the end of each chapter and an extensive bibliography encourage further exploration.

Exploring Medical Anthropology (3rd Edition)

Pearson

"Unusual study of northern coastal Peruvian curers centers on their lives and shared cultural ideology, the roots of which derive from indigenous cosmology, not folk Catholicism. Studies curers' philosophy by analyzing four patient accounts and examining their role in social and gender-based conflicts"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Sorcery and Shamanism: Curanderos and Clients in Northern Peru

Sharon, Douglas

Medical Books

Univ of Utah Pr

The curanderos of northern Peru, traditional healing specialists who invoke Jesus Christ and the saints with a mescaline sacrament and a shamanic rattle, are not vestigial curiosities nor are their patients rural illiterates without access to "modern medicine." Instead, many of these shamans have thriving urban practices, with clients from all levels of society.

Sorcery And Shamanism

University of Utah Press

Symbolic space & ritual time in a Peruvian healing ceremony (Ethnic technology notes)

San Diego Museum of Man

Now in its fourth edition, Exploring Medical Anthropology provides a concise and engaging introduction to medical anthropology. It presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence. Concrete examples and the author’s personal research experiences are utilized to explain some of the discipline’s most important insights, such as that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of disease and that medical anthropology can help to alleviate human suffering. The text has been thoroughly updated for the fourth edition, including fresh case studies and a new chapter on drugs. It contains a range of pedagogical features to support teaching and learning, including images, text boxes, a glossary, and suggested further reading.

Routledge

Mortal Dilemmas

Anthropologist Donald Joralemon asks whether America is really, as many scholars claim, a death-denying culture that prefers to quarantine the sick in hospitals and the elderly in nursing homes. His answer is a reasoned “no.” In his view, Americans are merely struggling to find cultural scripts for the exceptional conditions of dying that our social world and medical technologies have thrust upon us. The book: <ul>
<li>is written in the first-person for a broad audience by a senior anthropologist, making it an authoritative yet accessible textbook for courses on death and dying and American culture;</li> <li>includes contemporary debates about highly visible cases, the definition of death, the status of human remains, aging, and the medicalization of grief;</li> <li>demonstrates persuasively that arguments over death and dying are in fact arguments about what it means to be human in modern America.</li>
</ul>

Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America

Social Sciences

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Joralemon, Donald. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Joralemon, Donald

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Joralemon, Donald. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Exploring Medical Anthropology

Exploring Medical Anthropology (2nd Edition)

Exploring Medical Anthropology (3rd Edition)

Sorcery and Shamanism: Curanderos and Clients in Northern Peru

Sorcery And Shamanism

Symbolic space & ritual time in a Peruvian healing ceremony (Ethnic technology notes)

Exploring Medical Anthropology

Exploring Medical Anthropology

Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America

Mortal Dilemmas