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Traversing the chasm between biology and culture : an introduction -- The evolution of human adaptability paradigms : toward a biology of poverty -- Political economy and social fields -- The development of critical medical anthropology : implications for biological anthropology -- Linking political economy and human biology : lessons from North American archaeology -- The biological consequences of inequality in antiquity -- Owning the sins of the past : historical trends, missed opportunities, and new directions in the study of human remains -- Nature, nurture, and the determinants of infant mortality : a case study from Massachusetts, 1830-1920 -- Unequal in death as in life : a sociopolitical analysis of the 1813 Mexico City typhus epidemic -- Illness, social relations, and household production and reproduction in the Andes of southern Peru -- On the (un)natural history of the Tupí-Mondé Indians : bioanthropology and change in the Brazilian Amazon -- The political ecology of population increase and malnutrition in southern Honduras -- The biocultural impact of tourism on Mayan communities -- Poverty and nutrition in eastern Kentucky : the political economy of childhood growth -- Race, racism, and anthropology -- Beyond European enlightenment : toward a critical and humanistic human biology -- Latin American social medicine and the politics of theory -- Nature, political ecology, and social practice : toward an academic and political agenda -- What could be : biocultural anthropology for the next generation

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. Global Medicines in Local Cultures -- Chapter 1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian Clinic -- Chapter 2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian Hospital -- Chapter 3 The Cosmopolitan Hospital -- Chapter 4 "Dangerous Disease" Epilepsy in Asante -- Chapter 5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases Compared -- Part Two. Care Giving and Hospital Labor -- Chapter 6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital Benin -- Chapter 7 Medical "Errands" among Women with Cervical Cancer in Guatemala -- Chapter 8 Routinized Caring or a "Call" to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, Tanzania -- Chapter 9 "We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have" Hospital Care in Mexico -- Part Three. Hospitals and the Patient -- Chapter 10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, France -- Chapter 11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent's Take on Hospital Care Gone Wrong -- Chapter 12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public Hospitals -- Chapter 13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital -- Afterword -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index