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Culture, health and illness / edited by Cecil Helman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000.Edition: 4th edDescription: 352p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780750647861 (pbk.) :
  • 0750647868
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461 HEL
LOC classification:
  • RA418
Contents:
Introduction: the scope of medical anthropology -- Cultural definitions of anatomy and physiology -- Diet and nutrition -- Caring and curing: the sectors of health care -- 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 -- New research methods in medical anthropology -- Clinical questionnaires.
Summary: The new edition of this bestselling text has been extended and modernised with new material added to every chapter. In addition, there is a new chapter on New Research Methods in Medical Anthropology.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 306.461 HEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 116690

Previous ed.: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the scope of medical anthropology -- Cultural definitions of anatomy and physiology -- Diet and nutrition -- Caring and curing: the sectors of health care -- 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 -- New research methods in medical anthropology -- Clinical questionnaires.

The new edition of this bestselling text has been extended and modernised with new material added to every chapter. In addition, there is a new chapter on New Research Methods in Medical Anthropology.

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