Culture, Health and Illness

Name: Culture, Health and Illness
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ISBN: 9780750647861

ISBN-10: 0750647868

ISBN-13: 9780750647861

Edition: 4th 2000

Authors: Cecil G. Helman

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Culture, Health and Illness is an introduction to the role of cultural and social factors in health and disease, showing how an understanding of these factors can improve medical care and health education. The book demonstrates how different cultural, social or ethnic groups explain the causes of ill health, the types of treatment they believe in, and to whom they would turn if they were ill. It discusses the relationship of these beliefs and practices to the instance of certain diseases, both physical and psychological. This new edition has been extended and modernized with new material added to every chapter. In addition, there is a new chapter on 'new research methods in medical…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: CRC Press LLC
Publication date: 6/5/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



Preface to the fourth edition



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



Medical anthropology and global health



New research methods in medical anthropology



Clinical questionnaires


References


Author index


Subject index