Culture and Health:
Applying Medical Anthropology
by Michael Winkelman
(ISBN: 007-353748-9)
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Text Description:
This text provides an overview of different areas of medical anthropology, both theoretical and applied. The text outlines how to address the challenges of cross-cultural medicine and medical pluralism through interdisciplinary cultural-ecological models and personal and institutional developmental approaches to cross-cultural adaptation and competency. Separate chapters address the perspectives of clinically applied anthropology, transcultural psychiatry and the medical ecology, critical medical anthropology and symbolic paradigms as frameworks for enhanced comprehension of health and the medical encounter. Theoretical approaches are illustrated through cultural case studies, applied vignettes, and self-assessments.

Chapters
Chapter 1: Culture & Health: Applied Medical Anthropology & Health Care
Chapter 2: Health Maladies: Disease, Illness, Sickness & the Sick role
Chapter 3: Cultural Competence through Anthropological medicine
Chapter 4: Cultural-Ecological Systems Models & Health Assessment
Chapter 5: Ethnomedical Systems & Health Care Sectors
Chapter 6: Transcultural Psychiatry & Indigenous Psychologies
Chapter 7: Medical Ecological Approaches to Health
Chapter 8: Political Economy & Critical Medical Anthropology Approaches
Chapter 9: Psychobiological Dynamics of Health: Symbolic Effects of Physiology
Chapter 10: The Shamanic Paradigm of Ethnomedicine

Auxiliary Material
Test banks and power points of chapters available; contact Michael.winkelman@asu.edu. “Culture and Health: Medical Anthropology” course material also available as a online course.