Companion to Medical Anthropology

MERRILL SINGER is Emeritus Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Connecticut, USA, as well as Senior Research Scientist in the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP) at the University of Connecticut, USA. For his work in the field of medical anthropology, Professor Singer has been awarded a number of prestigious awards, including the Society for Medical Anthropology Career Award, and the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America. He is the authorand editor of numerous publications on disease interactions, global warming and health, including the Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health.PAMELA I. ERICKSON is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her research focuses on medical anthropology, maternal and child health, global health, and sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and young adults. She is fellow of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology, and has also served on the Governing Council of the Family and Reproductive Health Section of the American Public Health Association. CÉSAR E. ABADÍA-BARRERO is Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department and the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, USA. His research interests involve medical anthropology in Latin America as well as activist-oriented themes such as health and human rights, legal and moral issues in health, social science theory, and health inequalities.

• Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction 1Part I: Theories, Applications, and Methods 71 Re/Inventing Medical Anthropology: Definitional Struggles and Key Debates (Or: Answering the Cri Du Coeur) 9Elisa J. Sobo2 Critical Biocultural Approaches to Health and Illness 26Thomas L. Leatherman and Alan H. Goodman3 Applied Medical Anthropology: Praxis, Pragmatics, Politics, and Promises 49Robert T. Trotter, II4 Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology 67Clarence C. GravleePart II: Contexts and Conditions 935 Culture and the Stress Process 95William W. Dressler6 Global Health 109Craig R. Janes, Jennifer A. Liu, and Kitty K. Corbett7 Syndemics in Global Health 126Merrill Singer and Emily Mendenhall8 The Ecology of Health and Disease 145Patricia K. Townsend9 The Medical Anthropology of Water and Sanitation 160E. Christian Wells and Linda M. Whiteford10 Medical Anthropology of Political Violence and War 180Barbara Rylko-Bauer11 Medical Anthropology at the End of Life 198Ron BarrettPart III: Health and Behavior 21312 The Anthropology of Reproduction 215Elise Andaya and Mounia El Kotni13 Anthropological Approaches to Migration and Health 230Heide Castañeda14 Current Approaches to Nutritional Health in Medical Anthropology 245Deven Gray, David Himmelgreen, Nancy Romero-Daza, and Charlotte Noble15 Cancers’ Multiplicities: Anthropologies of Interventions and Care 260Lenore Manderson16 Anthropology and the Study of Illicit Drug Use 275J. Bryan Page17 Revisiting Generation Rx: Emerging Trends in Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Lifestyle Regulation, Self-Medication, and Recreational Drug Use 295Gilbert Quintero and Mark NichterPart IV: Healthwork: Care, Treatment, and Communication 31518 Ethnomedicines: Traditions of Medical Knowledge 317Marsha B. Quinlan19 Medical Pluralism: An Evolving and Contested Concept in Medical Anthropology 342Hans A. Baer20 Biotechnologies of Care 358Ruth Fitzgerald and Julie Park21 Medicine: Colonial, Postcolonial, or Decolonial? 373César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero22 The Politics of Communicability 388Charles L. BriggsPart V: The Road Ahead 40723 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 409Sandy Smith-Nonini24 Climate Change and Health: Anthropology and Beyond 429Merrill Singer, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet, and Ashley L. GrahamIndex 442