Culture, health, and illness / Cecil G. Helman.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Hodder Arnold, [2007]Distributor: New York, NY : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Oxford University Press Copyright date: ©2007Edition: Fifth editionDescription: viii, 501 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0340914505
- 9780340914502
- 306.461 22
- GN296 .H45 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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