Winkelman, Michael,

Culture and health : applying medical anthropology / Michael Winkelman. - First edition. - xxv, 480 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-460) and index.

Applied medical anthropology and health care -- Disease, illness, sickness, and the sick role -- Cultural competence in health care -- Cultural systems models -- Ethnomedical systems and health care sectors -- Transcultural psychiatry and indigenous psychology -- Medical-ecological approaches to health -- Political economy and critical medical anthropology -- Psychobiological dynamics of health -- The shamanic paradigm of ethnomedicine.

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Medical anthropology
Social medicine.
Medical care
Public health.
Culture.
Anthropology.
Health Behavior--ethnology
Medicine, Traditional

GN296 / .W56 2009

306.461