SECTION A: Orientation Introduction Medical Anthropology and its Transformation The Critical Gaze Postmodernism Medical Anthropology: A Critique SECTION B: The Macro-Social Level Health-Related Issues in Socialist-Oriented Societies: Ideals, Contradictions, and Realities Studying Up: The Political Economy of Nuclear Regulation SECTION C: The Intermediate-Social Level The American Dominative Medical System as a Reflection of Social Relations in the Larger Society AIDS and the Health Crisis of the U.S. Urban Poor The Drive for Professionalization in British Osteopathy SECTION D: The Micro-Social Level Medical Hegemony, Biomedical Magic, and Folk Medicine: Reproductive Illness among Haitian Women Prophets and Advisors in African-American Spiritual Churches: Therapy, Palliative, or Opiate? SECTION E: The Individual Level Confronting Juan Garc¿shy;a's Drinking Problem: The Demedicalization of Alcoholism Cure, Care and Control: Agency and the Structure in the Clinical Encounter SECTION F: Directions How Critical Can Clinical Anthropology Be? Critical Praxis in Medical Anthropology Topic Index Name Index.