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An ethnography of stress : the social determinants of health in Aboriginal Australia / Victoria Katherine Burbank.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture, mind, and societyPublisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: xiii, 219 pages : maps ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1137346167
  • 9781137346162
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.10994 23
Contents:
1. Introduction: Using Social Determinants of Health, Using Ethnography -- 2. At Numbulwar: Blackfellas and Whitefellas -- 3. Life History and Real Life: Fetal Origins of Disease, Ethnography, and History -- 4. Feeling Bad: Everyday Stress -- 5. Identity -- 6. Selves and Others -- 7. Conclusion: A Tentative Answer to a Fundamental Epidemiological Question.
Summary: "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."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: Using Social Determinants of Health, Using Ethnography -- 2. At Numbulwar: Blackfellas and Whitefellas -- 3. Life History and Real Life: Fetal Origins of Disease, Ethnography, and History -- 4. Feeling Bad: Everyday Stress -- 5. Identity -- 6. Selves and Others -- 7. Conclusion: A Tentative Answer to a Fundamental Epidemiological Question.

"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."--Publisher's website.

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