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Culture, health and illness : an introduction for health professionals / Cecil G. Helman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Butterworth Heinemann, 1994.Edition: 3rd edDescription: viii, 446pISBN:
  • 9780750619196 (pbk) :
  • 0750619198
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461 HEL
Contents:
Scope of medical anthropology -- Cultural definitions of anatomy and physiology -- Diet and nutrition -- Caring and curing -- Doctor-patient interactions -- Gender and reproduction -- Pain and culture -- Culture and pharmacology -- Ritual and the management of misfortune -- Cross-cultural psychiatry -- Cultural aspects of stress -- Cultural factors in epidemiology -- Medical anthropology and global health -- Clinical questionnaires.
Summary: Examines how different cultural, social or ethnic groups explain the causes of ill health, the types of treatment they believe in, and to whom they would turn if they were ill. This edition discusses clinically applied medical anthropology and includes case studies from around the world.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Short Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 306.461 HEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 115429

Previous ed. : 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [398]-427) and index.

Scope of medical anthropology -- Cultural definitions of anatomy and physiology -- Diet and nutrition -- Caring and curing -- Doctor-patient interactions -- Gender and reproduction -- Pain and culture -- Culture and pharmacology -- Ritual and the management of misfortune -- Cross-cultural psychiatry -- Cultural aspects of stress -- Cultural factors in epidemiology -- Medical anthropology and global health -- Clinical questionnaires.

Examines how different cultural, social or ethnic groups explain the causes of ill health, the types of treatment they believe in, and to whom they would turn if they were ill. This edition discusses clinically applied medical anthropology and includes case studies from around the world.

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