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1996
Magic, Science, and Health: The Aims and Achievements of Medical Anthropology.
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with race, gender, ethnicity, age, and ableness. Bailey, E. J.
2000
Medical Anthropology and African American Health. Westport, CT: Bergin
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AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean. Boulder, CO: Westview. This volume
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Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology. Mountain View, CA:
Mayfield. Medical anthropology, basic and applied. Chambers, E.
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Applied Anthropology: A Practical Guide. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice
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Native Tours: The Anthropology of Travel and Tourism. How anthropologists
study the world's number one business--travel and tourism. Eddy, E. M., and W. L. Partridge, eds.
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Applied Anthropology in America, 2nd ed. New York: Columbia University
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United States. Ferraro, G. P.
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The Cultural Dimension of International Business, 4th ed. Upper Saddle
River, NJ: Prentice Hall. How the theory and insights of cultural anthropology
can influence the conduct of international business. Helman, C.
2001
Culture, Health, and Illness: An Introduction for Health Professionals,
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2000
Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. How immigrants
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system. Human Organization
The quarterly journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology. An excellent
source for articles on applied anthropology and development.
Joralemon, D.
1999
Exploring Medical Anthropology. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Recent introduction
to a growing field. McElroy, A., and P. K. Townsend
1996
Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective, 3rd ed. Boulder, CO:
Westview. This established introduction to medical anthropology shows that field's
multidisciplinary roots. Rushing, W. A.
1995
The AIDS Epidemic: Social Dimensions of an Infectious Disease. Boulder,
CO: Westview. The sociocultural conditions that have contributed to the spread
of AIDS. Sargent, C. F., and C. B. Brettell
1996
Gender and Health: An International Perspective. Englewood Cliffs,
NJ: Prentice Hall. How culture affects the relation among gender, health-care
organization, and health policy. Sargent, C. F., and T. J. Johnson, eds.
1996
Medical Anthropology: A Handbook of Theory and Method, rev. ed. Westport,
CT: Praeger Press. Articles cover theoretical perspectives, medical systems,
health issues, methods in medical anthropology, and issues of policy and advocacy. Spindler, G. D., ed.
2000
Fifty Years of Anthropology and Education, 1950-2000: A Spindler Anthology.
Survey of the field of educational anthropology by two prominent contributors,
George and Louise Spindler. Strathern, A., and P. J. Stewart
1999
Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in Global Perspective. Durham,
NC: Carolina Academic Press. Cross-cultural examples of medical anthropology. Van Willigen, J.
1993
Applied Anthropology: An Introduction, rev. ed. South Hadley, MA: Bergin
and Garvey. Excellent review of the growth of applied anthropology and its links
to general anthropology. |
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