An ethnography of stress : the social determinants of health in aboriginal Australia
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An ethnography of stress : the social determinants of health in aboriginal Australia
（Culture, mind, and society）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-201) and index
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Description
Health inequality is a global issue. This book examines the problem through an in-depth look at a remote Australian Aboriginal community characterized by a degree of premature morbidity and mortality similar to that in other disadvantaged populations. Its synthesis of cognitive anthropology with frameworks drawn from epidemiology, evolutionary theory, and social, psychological and biological sciences illuminates the actions, emotions, and stresses of daily life. While this analysis implicates structures and processes of inequality in the genesis of ill health, its focus remains on the people who suffer, grieve, and live with the dilemmas of an intercultural life.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Using Social Determinants of Health, Using Ethnography At Numbulwar: Blackfellas and Whitefellas Life History and Real Life: Fetal Origins of Disease, Ethnography, and History Feeling Bad: Everyday Stress Identity Selves and Others Conclusion: A Tentative Answer to a Fundamental Epidemiological Question
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