Medical Anthropology and the World System

Download or read book Medical Anthropology and the World System written by Hans A. Baer and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical anthropology is one of the youngest and most dynamic of anthropology's various subdisciplines, examining health-related issues in precapitalist indigenous and state societies, capitalist societies, and postrevolutionary of socialist-oriented societies. While critical medical anthropology draws heavily on neo-Marxian, critical, and world systems theoretical perspectives, it attempts to incorporate the theoretical contributions of other systems in medical anthropology, including biocultural or medical ecology, ethnomedical approaches, cultural constructivism, poststructuralism, and postmodernism. This is the first textbook to incorporate this perspective.