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Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Theories, Applications, and Methods
1 Re/Inventing Medical Anthropology: Definitional Struggles and Key Debates (Or: Answering the Cri Du Coeur)
Elisa J. Sobo
2 Critical Biocultural Approaches to Health and Illness
Thomas L. Leatherman
Alan H. Goodman
3 Applied Medical Anthropology: Praxis, Pragmatics, Politics, and Promises
Robert T. Trotter II
4 Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology
Clarence C. Gravlee
Part II: Contexts and Conditions
5 Culture and the Stress Process
William W. Dressler
6 Global Health
Craig R. Janes
Jennifer A. Liu
Kitty K. Corbett
7 Syndemics in Global Health
Merrill Singer
Emily Mendenhall
8 The Ecology of Health and Disease
Patricia K. Townsend
9 The Medical Anthropology of Water and Sanitation
E. Christian Wells
Linda M. Whiteford
10 Medical Anthropology of Political Violence and War
Barbara Rylko-Bauer
11 Medical Anthropology at the End of Life
Ron Barrett
Part III: Health and Behavior
12 The Anthropology of Reproduction
Elise Andaya
Mounia El Kotni
13 Anthropological Approaches to Migration and Health
Heide Castaneda
14 Current Approaches to Nutritional Health in Medical Anthropology
Deven Gray
David Himmelgreen
Nancy Romero-Daza
Charlotte Noble
15 Cancers' Multiplicities: Anthropologies of Interventions and Care
Lenore Manderson
16 Anthropology and the Study of Illicit Drug Use
J. Bryan Page
17 Revisiting Generation Rx: Emerging Trends in Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Lifestyle Regulation, Self-Medication, and Recreational Drug Use
Gilbert Quintero
Mark Nichter
Part IV: Healthwork: Care, Treatment, and Communication
18 Ethnomedicines: Traditions of Medical Knowledge
Marsha B. Quinlan
19 Medical Pluralism: An Evolving and Contested Concept in Medical Anthropology
Hans A. Baer
20 Biotechnologies of Care
Ruth Fitzgerald
Julie Park
21 Medicine: Colonial, Postcolonial, or Decolonial?
Cesar Ernesto Abadia-Barrero
22 The Politics of Communicability
Charles L. Briggs
Part V: The Road Ahead
23 When Workers' Health is Public Health: The Structural Complicity of State Public Health Policies on Covid-19 Spread in Meat-Processing Plants and Minority Communities
Sandy Smith-Nonini
24 Climate Change and Health: Anthropology and Beyond
Merrill Singer
Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet
Ashley L. Graham
Index

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