Contents:

-Introduction -Part I Basic Concepts: Food and Nutrition: Food beliefs and practices among British Bangladeshis with diabetes: implications for health education, A.Mu'min Chowdhury, Cecil Helman and Trisha Greenhalgh -The biocultural approach in nutritional anthropology: case studies of malnutrition in Mali, Katherine A. Dettwyler. Alcohol and Drug Use: Crack in Spanish Harlem: culture and economy in the inner city, Philippe Bourgois -Cohesion and division: drinking in a English village, Geoffrey Hunt and Saundra Satterlee. Transcultural Psychiatry: Cultural factors and international epidemiology, Vikram Patel -The heart of what's the matter: the semantics of illness in Iran, Byron J. Good -Heart disease and the cultural construction of time: the Type A behaviour pattern as a Western culture-bound syndrome, Cecil G. Helman -The future of cultural psychiatry: an international perspective, Laurence J. Kirmayer and Harry Minas -The mental health of refugee children and their cultural development, Maurice Eisenbruch -Connectedness versus separateness: applicability of family therapy to Japanese families. Takesh Tamura and Annie Lau. Medical Pluralism and Traditional Healers: Innovative medicine – a case study of a modern healer, C. Simon -Cold or spirits? Choice and ambiguity in Morocco's pluralistic medical system, Bernard Greenwood. Languages of Distress: The semantics of pain in Indian culture and medicine, Judy F. Pugh -The angry liver, the anxious heart and the melancholy spleen, Thomas Ots. Rituals of Childbirth and Death: The technocratic model of birth, Robbie E. Davis-Floyd -McFunerals: the transition of Japanese funerary services, Hikaru Suzuki. Part II Applied Anthropology: International Health: What is 'World Health'?: Globality and constructions of world health, Christopher Keane. Family Planning: Culture and the management of family planning programs, Donald P. Warwick -Indigenous forms of fertility control, Cecil G. Helman. Diarrhoeal Diseases: Cultural models of diarrheal illness: conceptual framework and review, Mitchell G. Weiss. HIV and AIDS: Knowledge and meaning: the AIDS education campaign in rural Northeast Thailand, Chris Lyttleton -It's never as easy as ABC: understandings of AIDS in Botswana, Suzette Heald. Malaria: Fake malaria and hidden parasites – the ambiguity of malaria, Susanna Hausmann Muela, Joan Muela Ribera and Marcel Tanner. Infectious Diseases: Kyasanur Forest Disease: an ethnography of a disease of development, Mark Nichter. Part III Contemporary Issues: The Body: The anthropology of the beginnings and ends of life, Sharon R. Kaufmann and Lynn M. Morgan -Beyond nature and culture: modes of reasoning in the age of molecular biology and medicine, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger -Visible humans, vanishing bodies, and virtual nursing: complications of life, presence, place and identity, Margarete Sandelowski -Impossible gifts: bodies, Buddhism and bioethics in contemporary Sri Lanka, Bob Simpson -Index