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Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition
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Culture, Health and Illnessis 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 understanding the clinical significance of cultural and social factors. The book addresses the complex interactions between health, illness and culture by setting out anthropological theory in a highly readable, jargon-free style and integrating this with the practice of health care using real-life examples and case histories.
Fully revised throughout, the fifth edition has expanded its coverage of topics that are challenging both the patient and the carer's understanding of health and illness: poverty and inequality of healthcare, genetics, biotechnology, the internet and health, chronic diseases, drug-resistant infections, changes in nutrition and body image, medical care of migrants, medical technology, global pandemics such as AIDS and malaria, drug and alcohol dependence, and patients' 'languages of distress', a complex topic central to the doctor-patient relationship.
In today's world of increasing cultural, religious and ethnic diversity of populations,Culture, Health and Illnessis essential reading for students of medicine, nursing, psychiatry, public health, health education, international health and medical anthropology, across the globe.
Fully revised throughout, the fifth edition has expanded its coverage of topics that are challenging both the patient and the carer's understanding of health and illness: poverty and inequality of healthcare, genetics, biotechnology, the internet and health, chronic diseases, drug-resistant infections, changes in nutrition and body image, medical care of migrants, medical technology, global pandemics such as AIDS and malaria, drug and alcohol dependence, and patients' 'languages of distress', a complex topic central to the doctor-patient relationship.
In today's world of increasing cultural, religious and ethnic diversity of populations,Culture, Health and Illnessis essential reading for students of medicine, nursing, psychiatry, public health, health education, international health and medical anthropology, across the globe.
| Author | Cecil G. Helman |
|---|---|
| Table Of Content | Preface to the 5th Edition 1. Introduction: the scope of medical anthropology 2. The body: cultural definitions of anatomy and physiology 3. Diet and Nutrition 4. Caring and curing: the sectors of health care 5. Doctor-patient interactions 6. Gender and reproduction 7. Pain and culture 8. Culture and pharmacology: drugs, alcohol and tobacco 9. Ritual and the management of misfortune 10. Cross-cultural psychiatry 11. Cultural aspects of stress and suffering 12. Migration, globalization and health 13. Telemedicine and the Internet 14. New bodies, new selves: genetics and biotechnology 15. Cultural factors in epidemiology 16. The AIDS pandemic 17. Tropical diseases: malaria and leprosy 18. Medical anthropology and global health 19. New research methods in medical anthropology Appendix: Journals and websites Author index Subject index |
| Publish Date | 26 Jan 2007 |
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