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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.

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