Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective Book

Paperback. Pub Date: 2009 Pages: 520 in Publisher: Westview Press Inc. Widespread awareness of contrasting emerging infectious diseases and global environmental change makes the ecological perspective of this premier teaching text for medical anthropology as relevant as ever. Integrating biocultural. Environmental. And evolutionary approaches to the study of human health. this fifth edition is now thoroughly revised to reflect new developments in the field. Research by human biologists and paleopathologists illuminates the history and prehistory of disease. while the work of cultural and applied anthropologists addresses contemporary health issues . The fifth edition features five new profiles by guest contributors. all leading researchers on health and environment. New topics include community health and disease prevention in urban America; water-borne disease in Ecuador; i...Read More