Culture, health, and illness : an introduction for health professionals

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Culture, health, and illness : an introduction for health professionals

Cecil G. Helman

Wright, 1990

2nd ed

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"First published by John Wright and Sons, Ltd., 1984"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-317)

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This second edition continues the orientation towards applied medical anthropology. The relevance to health and illness and to the delivery of health care is also included. A new chapter has been added which deals with anthropological theories of gender, the "gender cultures" of males and females in different societies, the relation of gender to both health and health care and the gradual "medicalization" of several aspects of the female life-cycle.

目次

  • Introduction: the scope of medical anthropology
  • cultural definitions of anatomy and physiology
  • diet and nutrition
  • caring and curing: the sectors of health care
  • doctor-patient interactions
  • gender and reproduction
  • pain and culture
  • culture and pharmacology
  • ritual and the management of misfortune
  • cross-cultural psychiatry
  • cultural aspects of stress
  • cultural factors in epidemiology.

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