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Medical anthropology is one of the newest and most dynamic of anthropology's various subdisciplines. Critical medical anthropology (CMA), which examines health-related issues in all societies through time and place, and in light of the evolution of social complexity, has evolved into one of the major perspectives through which faculty, researchers, and students study the field. CMA also enables ethnographically informed understandings of local social contexts and identification of the political, economic, and ecological determinants of human health issues.
Medical Anthropology and the World System : Critical Perspectives, Third Edition includes updated and expanded information on medical anthropology, resulting in an even more comprehensive resource for undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers worldwide. As in the previous versions of this text, the authors provide insights from the perspective of critical medical anthropology, a well-established theoretical viewpoint from which faculty, researchers, and students study medical anthropology.
It addresses the nature and scope of medical anthropology ; the biosocial and political ecological origins of disease, health inequities, and social suffering ; and the nature of medical systems in indigenous and precapitalist state societies and modem societies. The third edition also includes new material on the relationship between climate change and health, war and health, and syndemics. Finally, this textbook explores health praxis and the struggle for a healthy world.
