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  Toward a more comprehensive medical anthropology: The case of adolescent psychopathology

  Argues for a more comprehensive analytical approach in medical anthropology than is currently followed, one that combines attention to structural factors, experiential/symbolic expressions and meanings, and biological/bodily features of disorders.
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  The gamesmanship of sex: A model based on African American adolescent accounts

  Examines adolescent understanding of the social context of sexual behavior.
  Concludes by examining the meanings that sex-related behavior may have for adolescents and the potential use of social knowledge for facilitating adolescent health.
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  Status incongruity in Samoan youth: A biocultural analysis of culture change, stress, and immune function

  Explores the degree to which new and old markers of social status agree-or disagree-and the consequences they have for the experience of stress in 329 Somoa adolescents.