Culture, health and illness / edited by Cecil Helman.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000.Edition: 4th edDescription: 352p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780750647861 (pbk.) :
- 0750647868
- 306.461 HEL
- RA418
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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.