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Intro -- General Editor's Preface -- Welcome Address to the Pre-Congress Conference on Medical Anthropology -- Preface -- SECTION ONE: NATIVE CULTURAL ASPECTS OF HEALING -- Introduction -- Witchcraft, the Shaman, and Active Pharmacopoeia -- The Relevance of African Traditional Medicine in Modern Medical Training and Practice -- Body and Spirit among the Sanumá (Yanoama) of North Brazil -- Coca and Popular Medicine in Peru: An Historical Analysis of Attitudes -- Social Basis of Illness: A Search for Therapeutic Meaning -- Snakebite Cure among the Rama Indians of Nicaragua -- The Traditional Folk Medicine of Taos, New Mexico -- Different Approaches to Medicine among Different People -- Post-Partum Salt Packing and Other Medical Practices: Oman, South Arabia -- SECTION TWO: SPECIFIC SUBJECT PAPERS -- Introduction -- The Incidence of Mental Illness among Italians in an English-Canadian City -- Warning: The Milk in This Package May Be Lethal for Your Infant -- Prehistoric Pictography in North America of Medical Significance -- Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Midwifery -- Cerro Sechin: Medical Anthropology's Inauguration in Peru? -- The Use of Argillaceous Earth as Medicament -- SECTION THREE: INTERACTION OF TRADITIONAL AND WESTERN MEDICAL PRACTICES -- Introduction -- Human Factors in the Regulation of Parasitic Infections: Cultural Ecology of Hookworm Populations in Rural West Bengal -- Analysis of Incidence of Excessive Alcohol Intake by the Indian Population in Montana -- Witchcraft: An Allegory? -- The Process of Medical Change in a Highland Guatemalan Town -- Endemic Goiter, Salt, and Local Customs in Central America: Prevention of a Preventable Disease -- Effect of Rural-Urban Migration on Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Disease and Medicine in Southern Peru -- A Transubstantiated Health Clinic in Nepal: A Model for the Future.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- SECTION A: Orientation -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Medical Anthropology and its Transformation -- Chapter 2: The Critical Gaze -- Chapter 3: Postmodernism Medical Anthropology: A Critique -- SECTION B: The Macro-Social Level -- Chapter 4: Health-Related Issues in Socialist-Oriented Societies: Ideals, Contradictions, and Realities -- Chapter 5: Studying Up: The Political Economy of Nuclear Regulation -- SECTION C: The Intermediate-Social Level -- Chapter 6: The American Dominative Medical System as a Reflection of Social Relations in the Larger Society -- Chapter 7: AIDS and the Health Crisis of the U.S. Urban Poor -- Chapter 8: The Drive for Professionalization in British Osteopathy -- SECTION D: The Micro-Social Level -- Chapter 9: Medical Hegemony, Biomedical Magic, and Folk Medicine: Reproductive Illness among Haitian Women -- Chapter 10: Prophets and Advisors in African-American Spiritual Churches: Therapy, Palliative, or Opiate? -- SECTION E: The Individual Level -- Chapter 11: Confronting Juan García's Drinking Problem: The Demedicalization of Alcoholism -- Chapter 12: Cure, Care and Control: Agency and Structure in the Clinical Encounter -- SECTION F: Directions -- Chapter 13: How Critical Can Clinical Anthropology Be? -- Chapter 14: Critical Praxis in Medical Anthropology -- Topic Index -- Name Index

Book reviewed in this article: Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective. Byron J. Good. Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life. Shirley Lindenbaum and Margaret Lock, eds.