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Doing Health Anthropology
What is the relationship between health, human nature, and human needs? The impact of social change on communities? The processes by which communities confront and overcome their health problems? How do we study these health questions in new communities and become advocates for change? These are critical questions in confronting the social causes of ill health, yet many health students do not have the appropriate training in the anthropological methods and techniques that help answer them. Christie Kiefer has written Doing Health Anthropology to prompt students to enter the community already prepared in these methods so that they can accurately ask and solve these important questions themsel...
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The Human Odyssey
"This is truly a major contribution — brilliant, beguiling, and as broad in concept as it is deep." — Jean Houston, PhD, author of The Possible Human Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D., an award-winning educator and expert on human development, offers a cross-cultural view of life's entire journey, from before birth to death to the possibilities of an afterlife. Dr. Armstrong cites both clinical research and anecdotal evidence in a comprehensive view of the challenges and opportunities we face at every stage of our development. His accessible narrative incorporates elements of history, literature, psychology, spirituality, and science in a fascinating guide to understanding our past as well as our ...
Eldercare, Distributive Justice, and the Welfare State
The essays in this book describe the situation of the elderly today, taking into account the major political, economic, and social variations of service provided in a variety of countries. Although the welfare state exists in all developed and developing countries, its content and administration varies substantially. The editors first develop a framework of concepts and perspectives that establish links between eldercare, distributive justice, and the welfare state. This is followed by analyses of the services provided to the elderly in selected countries. Finally, the editors show how and in what ways the concepts developed earlier in the introduction—equity, uniformity, public accountability, individualism, collectivism, institutional or residual welfare state orientation, "high" or "low" wage economy—apply to and explain the differences in care of the elderly.
Violence
Hardbound. In the 70's, research on biological bases of violence was repudiated on ideological grounds. Now, fresh insights on the biology of violence, including research on brain injury, ethology and genetic defects which cause violent behaviour both in animals and humans, force reappraisal of biological foundations for some violent behaviour. This new work is reviewed, and critiqued from ethical and historical perspectives.In this volume case studies are discussed, including American inner cities, narcoterrorism, Northern Ireland and Basqueterrorism. Epidemiology, anthropology and sociology perspectives include international studies of homicide rates, of the impact of television, effects of alcohol, impact on survivors, and evolving changes in international warfare.This volume begins a fresh integration of biological, psychological and cultural perspectives on violence. This broad perspective will interest psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologist
Deep Code
Professor Morse Brulay is writing to us from his jail cell in Ecuador. Brulay is a roamer and a seeker of the mysterious, the new, the erotic but also of enduring wisdom. In his search for the Deep Code the secret of time travel he runs afoul of the Fomors, the dark spirits of the Druidic world. Cursed with terrifying ashbacks to his prehistoric past, Morse loses his moral bearings and ees to the Amazon jungle in search of spiritual rebirth. There among the Indians he finds the knowledge he seeks and is joined in his new vision by Lotte, the beautiful biologist. In their effort to protect and nourish this knowledge, Morse and Lotte now nd their own lives in danger. Only the power of the discovered wisdom will determine what happens to them, and to the wisdom itself.
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