Critical Medical Anthropology

Merrill Singer is a medical anthropologist and professor in Anthropology at The University of Connecticut and in Community Medicine at The University of Connecticut Health Center.

• SECTION A: OrientationIntroductionMedical Anthropology and its TransformationThe Critical GazePostmodernism Medical Anthropology: A Critique SECTION B: The Macro-Social LevelHealth-Related Issues in Socialist-Oriented Societies: Ideals, Contradictions, and RealitiesStudying Up: The Political Economy of Nuclear Regulation SECTION C: The Intermediate-Social LevelThe American Dominative Medical System as a Reflection of Social Relations in the Larger SocietyAIDS and the Health Crisis of the U.S. Urban PoorThe Drive for Professionalization in British Osteopathy SECTION D: The Micro-Social LevelMedical Hegemony, Biomedical Magic, and Folk Medicine: Reproductive Illness among Haitian WomenProphets and Advisors in African-American Spiritual Churches: Therapy, Palliative, or Opiate? SECTION E: The Individual LevelConfronting Juan García's Drinking Problem: The Demedicalization of AlcoholismCure, Care and Control: Agency and the Structure in the Clinical Encounter SECTION F: DirectionsHow Critical Can Clinical Anthropology Be?Critical Praxis in Medical AnthropologyTopic IndexName Index