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Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Supplemental Case Materials -- Author -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- The Biocultural Approach -- Roadmap -- Key Features -- End Aims -- Acknowledgments -- Part I A Systems View of Human Adaptation -- Chapter 1 Anthropology and Complexity -- Where Did the Nature-Nurture Question Come From? -- Holistic Systems Thinking -- Ecosystems -- Complex Systems -- Studying Human Systems -- Chapter 2 Genetic Adaptation

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword by Carolyn Sargent -- Preface -- Part I The Value of Meaning -- Chapter 1 The Journey Ahead: Aims and Means -- Chapter 2 Why Focus on Stories? -- Part II The Lay of the Land -- Chapter 3 Medical Anthropology: An Agenda -- Chapter 4 Anthropology in and of Health Services -- Chapter 5 Health Services: An Insider's Guide -- Chapter 6 The Culture Concept, Cultural Competence, and the Dangers of "Anthro Lite" -- Part III Methodological Theory and Practice -- Chapter 7 Doing Science-and Other Systematic Things

Celibacy in cross-cultural perspective : an overview / Sandra Bell and Elisa J. Sobo -- Private lives and public identities : an example of female celibacy in northwest India / Peter Phillimore -- The women who refuse to be exchanged : nuns in Zangskar, northwest India / Kim Gutschow -- The maintenance and reinforcement of celibacy in institutionalized settings / Hector N. Qirko -- The chaste adolescent / Alice Schlegel -- Virgins in the spirit : the celibacy of Shakers / Peter Collins -- Staying clean : notes on Mazatec ritual celibacy and sexual orientation / Michael Duke -- Can women be celibate? Sexuality and abstinence in Theravada Buddhism / Hiroko Kawanami -- Sexual fluids, emotions, morality : notes on the gendering of Brahmacharya / Meena Khandelwal -- Ritualizing celibacy : the poetics of inversion in Chile and Kenya / Mario I. Aguilar -- Like a natural woman : celibacy and the embodied self in anorexia nervosa / Rebecca J. Lester -- Cultural schemas of celibacy / Victor C. De Munck -- Celibacy in American prisons : legal and interpretive perspectives / Mark S. Fleisher and John R. Shaw -- A swallow in winter : a Catholic priesthood viewpoint / Paul Southgate

Practicing anthropology within the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has, until recently, received little serious consideration as a respectable career option for anthropology postgraduates. But times are changing. Anthropologists employed by the VA are responsible for some of the most important and actionable anthropologically informed health research today. Far from being a marginal pursuit, VA anthropology is in fact a generative force for medical anthropology and, indeed, the discipline as a whole.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Approaches and Methods -- 1 Introduction: Contraception across Cultures -- 2 Psychosocial Data and Cross-Cultural Analyses: Challenges to Anthropology and Contraceptive Research -- 3 Responding to Reality: The Efficacy of Anthropological and Participatory Methods for the Implementation of Sustainable Contraceptive Programmes -- Part 2 Contraception in its Political and Economic Contexts -- 4 Fertility Running Wild: Elite Perceptions of the Need for Birth Control in White-Ruled Rhodesia -- 5 A Clinic in Conflict: A Political Economy Case Study of Family Planning in Haiti -- Part 3 Contraceptive Policy and Practice: User Perspectives -- 6 'Weak Blood' and 'Crowded Bellies': Cultural Influences on Contraceptive Use Among Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants in Israel -- 7 New Reproductive Rights and Wrongs in the Galilee -- 8 My Body, My Problem: Contraceptive Decision-Making among Rural Bangladeshi Women -- Part 4 Contraceptive Policy and Practice: Provider Perspectives -- 9 Uzbekistan in Transition - Changing Concepts in Family Planning and Reproductive Health -- 10 Family Planning or Reproductive Health? Interpreting Policy and Providing Family Planning Services in Highland Chiapas, Mexico -- Index.

Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and disease, the editors, along with a group of rising scholars and some of the most influential minds in the field, address the concept of chronicity, an idea used to explain individual and local life-worlds, question public health discourse, and consider the relationship between health and the globalizing forces that shape it