Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society

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PART I: ANTHROPOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEMS 1. The Anthropology of Childhood Malaria in Tanzania 2. Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in the Medical Marketplace of India: Implications for Effort to Improve Global Respiratory Health 3. Situating Stress: Lessons from Lay Discourses on Diabetes 4. Undersatnding Prgnancy in a Population of Inner-City Women in New Orleans- Results of Qualitative Research 5. The Limits of Heterosexual AIDS: Ethnographic Research on Tourism and Male Sexual Labor in the Dominican Republic 6. Male Infertility and Consanguinity in Lebanon: the Power of Ethnogrpahic Epidemiology 7. Structural Violence, Political Violence, and the Health Costs of Civil Conflict: A Case Study from Peru PART II: ANTHROPOLOGICAL DESIGN OF PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS 8. Bridges between Mental Health Care and Religious Healing in Puerto Rico: The Outcome of an Early Experiment 9. Indigenization of Illness Support Groups for Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti 10. Using Formative Research to Explore and Address Elder Health and Care in Chiapas, Mexico 11. Anthropological Contributions to the Development of Culturally Appropriate Tobacco Cessation Programs: A Global Health Priority 12. From Street Research to Public Health Intervetnion: The Hartford Drug Monitoring Project 13. Sexual Risk Reduction Among Married Men and Women in Urban India: An Anthropological Intervention PART III: ANTHROPOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES 14. Honorable Mutilation? Changing Responses to Female Genital Cutting in Sudan 15. Making Pregnancy Safer for Women around the World: The Example of Safe Motherhood and Maternal Death in Guatemala 16. Counting on Mother's Love 17. The Brazilian Response to AIDS and the Pharmaceuticalization of Global Health 18. Anthropological and Public Health Perspectives on the Polio Eradication Initiative in Northern Nigeria PART IV: ANTHROPOLOGICAL CRITIQUES OF PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY 19. Sanitary Makeshifts and the Perpetuation of Health Stratification in Indonesia 20. Global Panic, Local Repercussions: The Economic and Nutritional Effects of Bird Flu in Vietnam 21. Neoliberal Infections and the Politics of Health: Resurgent Tuberculosis Epidemics in New York City and Lima, Peru 22. Biological Citizenship After Chernobyl 23. An Ethnographic Evaluation of Post-Alma Ata Health System Reforms in Mongolia: Lessons for Addressing Health Inequities in Poor Communities 24. Bureaucratic Aspects of International Health Programs

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