The Anthropology of Medicine: From Culture to Method

This long-awaited revision of what has now become the classic text in medical anthropology contains a wealth of new material on subjects as diverse as aging, creativity, and ideology. Originally cited in ^IAmerican Anthropologist^R as must reading for all medical anthropologists, physicians, advanced medical anthropology students and advanced medical students, this new edition should prove twice as valuable. It is both a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of medical anthropology and a state-of-the-art reference work. The authors bring new perspectives to our understanding of both Western and non-Western medicine, from the biochemical and physiological aspects of health care in preindustrialized cultures to cultural and ideological factors inherent in past and present Western medical care. New chapters focus on ethnobotany, placebo and pain, shamanism, and psychiatry.The contributors to this volume examine the acculturation process of healer, physician, and patient in diverse cultural settings. They explore the social and cultural context of medical events as well as the process of medical thought and problem solving. Medicine, they illustrate, embraces or is embraced by both the cultural and biological dimensions of mankind. From this perspective they show how human belief, knowledge, and action structure the experience of disease and affect ways in which doctors, healers, and patients experience illness and influence the matrix of decision making. This book is essential for students and professionals in anthropology, medicine, and all social science.

Lola Romanucci-Ross

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Managing Conflicts in Organizations

Rahim, M. Afzalur

Business & Money

The Employer's Guide to Child Care: Developing Programs for Working Parents

Barbara Adolf

Analyzing qualitative data: Introductory log-linear analysis for behavioral research

Analyzing Qualitative Data: Introductory Log-Linear Analysis for Behavioral Research

Science & Math

John J. Kennedy

Mathematics

Political Campaign Communication: Principles & Practices

Friedenberg, Robert V.

This is a revision and update of Zimmerman's classic study of relations between state and local government. The first edition, published in 1983, was based on three decades of research into intergovernmental affairs and examined the legal, financial, and structural foundations of state-local relations. This new edition adds a fourth decade of research and brings the work up to date through the early 1990s, adding a chapter on state mandates and local governments, reviewing and analyzing the changes in fortune of state and local governments, and the impact of those changes on their relations between each other and between themselves and the federal government.

State-Local Relations: A Partnership Approach

ZIMMERMAN

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Baehr

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The Leadership Question: The Presidency & the American System (American Political Parties and Elections)

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Rockman

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The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Perspectives

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Rubinstein, Alvin Z.

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Cognition & Environment: Functioning in an Uncertain World

Stephen Kaplan

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