Many serious public health problems confront the world in the new millennium. Anthropology and Public Health examines the critical role of anthropology in four crucial public health domains: (1) anthropological understandings of public health problems such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and diabetes; (2)
anthropological design of public health interventions in areas such as tobacco control and elder care; (3) anthropological evaluations of public health initiatives such as Safe Motherhood and polio eradication; and (4) anthropological critiques of public health policies, including neoliberal health
care reforms. As the volume demonstrates, anthropologists provide crucial understandings of public health problems from the perspectives of the populations in which the problems occur. On the basis of such understandings, anthropologists may develop and implement interventions to address particular
public health problems, often working in collaboration with local participants. Anthropologists also work as evaluators, examining the activities of public health institutions and the successes and failures of public health programs. Anthropological critiques may focus on major international public
health agencies and their workings, as well as public health responses to the threats of infectious disease and other disasters. Through twenty-four compelling case studies from around the world, the volume provides a powerful argument for the imperative of anthropological perspectives, methods,
information, and collaboration in the understanding and practice of public health. Written in plain English, with significant attention to anthropological methodology, the book should be required reading for public health practitioners, medical anthropologists, and health policy makers. It should
also be of interest to those in the behavioral and allied health sciences, as well as programs of public health administration, planning, and management. As the single most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of anthropology's role in public health, this volume will inform debates about how to
solve the world's most pressing public health problems at a critical moment in human history.
Part I: Anthropological Understanding of Public Health Problems
1. Vinay Kamat: The Anthropology of Childhood Malaria in Tanzania
2. David Van Sickle: Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in the Medical Marketplace of India: Implications for Effort to Improve Global Respiratory
Health
3. Nancy E. Schoenberg, Elaine M. Drew, and Eleanor Palo Stoller: Situating Stress: Lessons from Lay Discourses on Diabetes
4. Carl Kendall, Aimee Afable-Munsuz, Ilene Speizer, Alexis Avery, Norine Schmidt, and John Santelli: Undersatnding Prgnancy in a Population of Inner-City Women
in New Orleans-- Results of Qualitative Research
5. Mark B. Padilla: The Limits of "Heterosexual AIDS:" Ethnographic Research on Tourism and Male Sexual Labor in the Dominican Republic
6. Marcia C. Inhorn, Loulou Kobeissi, Antoine A. Abu-Musa, Johnny Awward, Michael H. Fakih, Najwa Hammoud,
Antoine B. Hannoun, Da'ad Lakkis, and Zaher Nassar: Male Infertility and Consanguinity in Lebanon: the Power of Ethnogrpahic Epidemiology
7. Tom Leatherman and R. Brooke Thomas: 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. Joan D. Koss-Chioino: Bridges between Mental Health Care and Religious Healing in Puerto Rico: The Outcome of an Early Experiment
9. Jeannine Coreil and Gladys Mayard: Indigenization of Illness Support Groups for Lymphatic
Filariasis in Haiti
10. Namino Glantz: Using Formative Research to Explore and Address Elder Health and Care in Chiapas, Mexico
11. Mark Nichter, Mimi Nichter, Siwi Padmawti, C.U. Thresia, and Project Quit Tobacco International Group: Anthropological Contributions to the Development of
Culturally Appropriate Tobacco Cessation Programs: A Global Health Priority
12. Merrill Singer, Greg Mirhej, Claudia Santelices, and Hassan Saleheen: From Street Research to Public Health Intervetnion: The Hartford Drug Monitoring Project
13. Stephen L. Schensul, Ravi K. Verma, Bonnie K.
Nastasi, Niranjan Saggurti, and Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada: Sexual Risk Reduction Among Married Men and Women in Urban India: An Anthropological Intervention
Part III: Anthropological Evaluations of Public Health Initiatives
14. Ellen Gruenbaum: Honorable Mutilation? Changing Responses
to Female Genital Cutting in Sudan
15. Nicole S. Berry: Making Pregnancy Safer for Women around the World: The Example of Safe Motherhood and Maternal Death in Guatemala
16. Karen Marie Moland and Astrid Blystad: Counting on Mother's Love
17. Joao Biehl: The Brazilian Response to AIDS
and the Pharmaceuticalization of Global Health
18. Elisha P. Renne: Anthropological and Public Health Perspectives on the Polio Eradication Initiative in Northern Nigeria
Part IV: Anthropological Critiques of Public Health Policy
19. Eric A. Stein: "Sanitary Makeshifts" and the
Perpetuation of Health Stratification in Indonesia
20. Stacy Lockerbie and D. Ann Herring: Global Panic, Local Repercussions: The Economic and Nutritional Effects of Bird Flu in Vietnam
21. Sandy Smith-Nonini: Neoliberal Infections and the Politics of Health: Resurgent Tuberculosis Epidemics
in New York City and Lima, Peru
22. Adriana Petryna: Biological Citizenship After Chernobyl
23. Craig R. Janes: An Ethnographic Evaluation of Post-Alma Ata Health System Reforms in Mongolia: Lessons for Addressing Health Inequities in Poor Communities
24. George M. Foster: Bureaucratic
Aspects of International Health Programs
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Robert A Hahn is Coordinating Scientist of the Violence Prevention Review and Excess Alcohol Consumption Review Guide to Community Preventive Services, Division of Health Communication and Marketing National Center for Health Marketing Coordinating Center for Health Information and Service
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Marcia Inborn is a Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Department of Arthropology at the University of Michigan.
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