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APPLICATIONS

Areas of Medical Anthropology 12

Anthropological Approaches to AIDS Prevention 72

Eliciting an Explanatory Model 77

Cultural Defense as Advocacy in the Courtroom 104

Guidelines for Working in Clinical Settings 110

Integrating Folk Healers and Biomedicine 190

Culture in Human Development and Clinical Assessment 222

Using Indigenous Contagion Theory in Public Health Education 244

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Changing the Micropolitics of Medicine 316

Developing Community Involvement and Practitioner Cultural Competence 328

Mothers Against Drunk Driving as a Community Health Coalition 330

Biomedical Ritual 347

Shamanistic Healing in Catholic Charismatic Healing 414

Shamanism and DSM-IV Spiritual Emergencies 418

Applying Shamanic Potentials in Psychotherapy with Latinos 423

Meditation and Shamanism in Substance Abuse Rehabilitation 424

BIOCULTURAL INTERACTIONS

Clinical Significance of Mexican Illness Beliefs 9

African American CVD in System Perspective 25

Leprosy and Social Stigma 41

Depersonalization and Depression from Yogic Perspectives 44

Somatoform Disorders in Cross-Cultural Perspective 46

Mental Retardation as Social Classification 51

Stories of Illness as Healing Devices 64

Social Interaction in Hmong Medical Relations 98

African Americans' Cross-Cultural Interactions with Biomedicine 116

Managing Culture, Not Biology 122

Cultural Systems Effects on CVD 160

Ethnic American Pain Responses 172

Hypercholesterolemia as a Medically Constructed Malady 187

Body Image and Symptom Recognition as Contributing Factors in CVD 199

Cultural Factors in Major Psychopathologies 210

Biological-Social Dynamics of Possession 218

Susto: "Magical Fright" 229

Sleep Paralysis Syndrome 230

"Ghost Illness" 232

Genital Retraction Illness 233

Latah and the Startle Taxon 235

Magical Malevolence as Causes of Illness in Mexican American Culture 240

Biocultural and Environmental Interactions in Malaria 254

Birthing in Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives 256

Genetics and CVD 258

Prevalent Genetic Diseases Among Ashkenazi Jews 259

Evolutionary Adaptations for Digesting Milk 261

Thrifty Genotype or Starved Phenotype? 262

Factors in CVD 271

Pesticide Poisoning as the Production of Disease 300

Production of CVD in the African American Community 311

CVD and Social Support 313

Native American Alcoholism 320

Cultural Ecology and Stress in African American CVD 355

Culture and Social Relations in Stress 356

Alcohol Effects and Culture 366

Physiological Bases of Hallucinogens' Therapeutic Effects 396

"Old-Time Religion" in the Management of African American CVD 411

CASE STUDIES

Cultural Conflicts in Health Care 4

Disease and Illness 37

Cardiac Arrest 49

Lost Without Translation 85

Alternative or Complementary Medicine? 166

Hmong Conceptions of Well-Being 205

The Physical Burden of History 252

The Political Power of Medicine 298

• a title="Nightmare Deaths and Stress Medical Anthropology" href="/medical/nightmare-deaths-and-stress.html">Nightmare Deaths and Stress 340
• a title="Shamanic Treatment of Soul Loss Medical Anthropology" href="/medical/shamanic-treatment-of-soul-loss.html">Shamanic Treatment of Soul Loss 388

CULTURE AND HEALTH

Etymological Views of Health 14

Native American Religious Health Beliefs 17

Epilepsy as an Induced Spiritual Condition 43

Cultural and Historical Bases of the DSM 53

Ethnomedicine and Evolved Adaptations 54

Genital Cutting: Surgery or Mutilation? 56

Confusing Disease in "the Flu" 59

Clinical Significance of African American High-Pertension 61

Healing Stories from Jewish Women Saints 63

Sick Role in Mexican American Culture 66

African Americans and the Sick Role 68

African American CVD and Illness Beliefs 78

Cultural Issues in Mexican American Pregnancy and Prenatal Care 132

Religion and Healing in Contemporary America 142

Cult of the Saints in the Care and Management of Medically Induced Sickness 144

Popular Health Practices Among African Americans 168

Hmong Concepts of Self in Souls 175

Mexican American Ethnomedical Traditions 176

Peyote Religion as Community Healing 181

Ritual Healing in Suburban America 182

Alternative and Complementary Therapies for HIV 188

Cultural Aspects of U.S. Biomedicine 196

Indigenous Psychology and Self in Catholic Charismatic Healing 214

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Contagious Magic as Adaptive Cognition 242

Confounding in the Association of Smoking and Cervical Cancer 269

Alameda County, California, Longitudinal Study 309

Metaphoric Processes in Catholic Charismatic Healing 378

Imagery in Catholic Charismatic Healing 405

Healing the Catholic Psyche of Unwanted Others 409

Divine Relationships in Catholic Charismatic Healing 421

PRACTITIONER PROFILES

Linda M. Whiteford 13

Edward C. Green 26

Nancy Romero-Daza 69

Mikel Hogan 91

M. Jean Gilbert 100

Robbie Davis-Floyd 135

Noel J. Chrisman 152

• a title="Kaja Finkler Medical Anthropology" href="/medical/kaja-finkler.html">Kaja Finkler 183
• a title="Richard J Castillo Medical Anthropology" href="/medical/richard-j-castillo.html">Richard J. Castillo 212
• a title="Nina Etkin Medical Anthropology" href="/medical/nina-etkin.html">Nina Etkin 265
• a title="Hans Baer Medical Anthropology" href="/medical/hans-baer.html">Hans Baer 307
• a title="Craig Janes Medical Anthropology" href="/medical/craig-janes.html">Craig Janes 323

Marlene Dobkin de Rios 416

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