Research Catalog

Title

Society, health, and disease : transcultural perspectives / editors, Janardan Subedi and Eugene B. Gallagher.

Publication

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Subedi, Janardan
• Gallagher, Eugene B.

Description

xviii, 345 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• World health
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Sociology, Medical
• Developing Countries
• Social medicine > Developing countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction / Janardan Subedi and Eugene B. Gallagher -- Ch. 1. Culture, Parental Attitudes, and Child Health in Rural Peru / Anne C. Larme -- Ch. 2. Transforming Society, Transforming Medicine: Lay Medical Perceptions and Self-Medication Among Contemporary Koreans / June J. H. Lee -- Ch. 3. Intrapsychic Autonomy and the Emotional Construction of Biocultural Illness: A Question of Balance / Mary Katharine Duffie -- Ch. 4. A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Filarial Disease in the Fiji Islands / Usha K. Prasad -- Ch. 5. The Demographic, Cultural, and Behavioral Contexts of Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries / Gabriel B. Fosu and Janardan Subedi -- Ch. 6. Ecological and Macrolevel Influences on Illness in Northern Peru: Beyond the International Health Paradigm / Kathryn S. Oths -- Ch. 7. Inequalities in the Mexican National Health Care System: Problems in Managing Cancer in Southern Mexico / Linda M. Hunt --
• Ch. 8. Utilization and Cost of Maternal Child Health Services in Belize, Central America / Beth A. Macke and Sandra E. Paredez -- Ch. 9. Hepatitis B in Taiwan and the United States: A Sociologic Analysis of Comparative Risk Factors and Efforts at Control / Shu-Fen Tseng and Richard E. Barrett -- Ch. 10. Early Retirement and Normal Male Identity: Assessing an Aspect of Quality of Life after Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery / Uta Gerhardt -- Ch. 11. Oil Wells on Fire: A Study of Stress in Kuwait / Naheel S. Al-Nafisi, Rashed J. Al-Hamdan, Hayfa H. Ali, Philip M. Moody and Jaafar Behbehani -- Ch. 12. The Medical Dignity of the Individual: A Cultural Exploration / Eugene B. Gallagher -- Ch. 13. AIDS as a Globalizing Panic / John O'Neill -- Ch. 14. Social Factors and Knowledge of HIV/AIDS in Vietnam / Nhung Le and David R. Williams -- Ch. 15. Sex, Condoms, and Risk of AIDS in Bangladesh / Steven Folmar and S. M. Nurul Alam --
• Ch. 16. Women and AIDS in Africa: A Critical Review / Dana Lear -- Ch. 17. A Role for Genetic Epidemiology in the Development of International Health Care Programs for Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases / Sarah Williams-Blangero, John Blangero and Janardan Subedi -- Ch. 18. Domestic Violence Against Women: A Contemporary Issue in International Health / Ruth L. Fischbach and Elizabeth Donnelly.

ISBN

0136690947

LCCN

95006329

OCLC

• 32052910
• ocm32052910
• SCSB-4776530

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries