| Description |
xviii, 232 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Cultivating Health / Malcolm MacLachlan --2. Cultivating Health through Multiculturalism / Mesfin S. Mulatu and John W. Berry -- 3. 'Good' Reasons for 'Bad' Records: the Social, Political and Cultural Context of Vital Registration / Gillian Lewando-Hundt -- 4. Cultivating Health and Preventing HIV/AIDS in the Dual Employment System of China / Shuguang Wang and Daphne Keats -- 5. Cultivating Health and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child / Philip Cook -- 6. Asian Psychological Approaches and Western Therapy / Dan Berkow and Richard C. Page -- 7. Cultivating Health through Complementary Medicine / Adrian Furnham and Charles Vincent -- 8. Boiled Nettles in May: Studies of Plural Medicine in Northern and Southern Ireland / Anne MacFarlane and Pauline Ginnety -- 9. Traditional Mechanisms for Cultivating Health in Africa / Karl Peltzer -- 10. Cultivating the Psychosocial Health of Refugees / Alastair Ager and Marta Young -- 11. Designing Sustainable Health Promotion: STD and HIV Prevention in Singapore / George D. Bishop and Mee Lian Wong |
| Summary |
"How can HIV infection be reduced among commercial sex workers? Why are alternative therapies becoming increasingly popular? How can Eastern philosophies and therapies be integrated into Western therapies? These are just some examples of the practical problems and policy issues that Cultivating Health addresses. Malcolm MacLachlan situates health promotion and intervention within the cultrual and community contexts in which they are applied. Drawn from across five continents and working in a variety of disciplines, the contributors are all leading authorities in their fields. Together, they show how it is possible to enhance health by working through the psychological conduit of culture. Cultivating Health is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the cultural context in which health must be cultivated, the second section deals with parallel approaches to cultivating health (pluralism) and the third and final section addresses three very different and quite specific perspectives on cultivating health. This book will be important for researchers, as well as undergraduate students and postgraduate students in the health and social sciences, especially psychology, social studies, medicine, anthropology and nursing, who need to provide health care across cultural boundaries." -- Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medicine and psychology.
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Medicine and psychology -- Case studies.
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Social medicine.
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Social medicine -- Case studies.
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Health promotion -- Social aspects.
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Health promotion -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Health promotion -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Health promotion.
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Health Promotion.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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Cross-cultural studies
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Case studies.
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| Author |
MacLachlan, Malcolm.
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| LC no. |
00043549 |
| ISBN |
0471496200 paperback alkaline paper |
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047197725X cloth alkaline paper |
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