Critical Medical Anthropology

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Introduction	p. 3
Medical Anthropology and its Transformation	p. 11
The Critical Gaze	p. 59
Postmodernism Medical Anthropology: A Critique	p. 113
Health-Related Issues in Socialist-Oriented Societies: Ideals, Contradictions, and Realities	p. 135
Studying Up: The Political Economy of Nuclear Regulation	p. 157
The American Dominative Medical System as a Reflection of Social Relations in the Larger Society	p. 181
AIDS and the Health Crisis of the U.S. Urban Poor	p. 203
The Drive for Professionalization in British Osteopathy	p. 235
Medical Hegemony, Biomedical Magic, and Folk Medicine: Reproductive Illness among Haitian Women	p. 253
Prophets and Advisors in African-American Spiritual Churches: Therapy, Palliative, or Opiate?	p. 277
Confronting Juan Garcia's Drinking Problem: The Demedicalization of Alcoholism	p. 301
Cure, Care and Control: Agency and Structure in the Clinical Encounter	p. 329
How Critical Can Clinical Anthropology Be?	p. 351
Critical Praxis in Medical Anthropology	p. 371
Topic Index	p. 393
Name Index	p. 396
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