Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition
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Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition

  1. 512 pages
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Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition

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Culture, Health and Illness is the leading international textbook on the role of cultural and social factors in health, illness, and medical care. Since first published in 1984, it has been used in over 40 countries within universities, medical schools and nursing colleges. This new edition meets the ever-growing need for a clear starting point in

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9781040059357

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Companion website
  9. 1 Introduction: the scope of medical anthropology
  10. 2 The body: cultural definitions of anatomy and physiology
  11. 3 Diet and nutrition
  12. 4 Caring and curing: the sectors of health care
  13. 5 Doctor–patient interactions
  14. 6 Gender and reproduction
  15. 7 Pain and culture
  16. 8 Culture and pharmacology: drugs, alcohol and tobacco
  17. 9 Ritual and the management of misfortune
  18. 10 Cross-cultural psychiatry
  19. 11 Cultural aspects of stress and suffering
  20. 12 Migration, globalization and health
  21. 13 Telemedicine and the Internet
  22. 14 New bodies, new selves: genetics and biotechnology
  23. 15 Cultural factors in epidemiology
  24. 16 The AIDS pandemic
  25. 17 Tropical diseases: malaria and leprosy
  26. 18 Medical anthropology and global health
  27. 19 New research methods in medical anthropology
  28. Appendix: Journals and websites
  29. Author index
  30. Subject index