Radical contextualization: Contributions to an anthropology of racial/ethnic health disparities

Health

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-167

  Chapman, Rachel R ^a   Berggren, Jean R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Biosocial pathogenesis; Ethnography; Inequality; Racial ethnic health disparities

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARMY; BIOMEDICINE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POLITICS; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SELF MEDICATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOCIOLOGY; THEORY; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTHROPOLOGY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 17744377813     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459305050583     Document Type: Review

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