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Culture, health, and illness : an introduction for health professionals

Title: Culture, health, and illness : an introduction for health professionals / Cecil Helman.
Author: Helman, Cecil, 1944-2009.
Publication: Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth Heinemann, [1994], ©1994.

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viii, 446 pages; 23 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: the scope of medical anthropology -- 2. Cultural definitions of anatomy and physiology -- 3. Diet and nutrition -- 4. Caring and curing: the sectors of health care -- 5. Doctor-patient interactions -- 6. Gender and reproduction -- 7. Pain and culture -- 8. Culture and pharmacology -- 9. Ritual and the management of misfortune -- 10. Cross-cultural psychiatry -- 11. Cultural aspects of stress -- 12. Cultural factors in epidemiology -- 13. Medical anthropology and global health.

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0750619198

OCLC

32589505
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