Description |
viii, 446 pages ; 22 cm |
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 |
Analysis |
Great Britain |
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Health Sociology |
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Man Health Social aspects |
Notes |
Includes index |
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Previous ed. : 1990 |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [398]-427 |
Subject |
Medical anthropology.
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Social medicine.
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Social Medicine.
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Sociology, Medical.
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LC no. |
95148437 |
ISBN |
0750619198 (paperback) |
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