Culture, health and illness : an introduction for health professionals / Cecil G. Helman.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Butterworth Heinemann, 1994.Edition: 3rd edDescription: viii, 446pISBN:- 9780750619196 (pbk) :
- 0750619198
- Social medicine
- Transcultural medical care
- Health attitudes
- Medical anthropology
- Human biology
- Health systems & services
- Public health & preventive medicine
- Cultural studies
- Medicine: general issues
- Medical study & revision guides & reference material
- Social Medicine
- Sociology, Medical
- Man Health Social aspects
- Health Sociology
- Great Britain
- 306.461 HEL
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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.