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The cultural context of health, illness, and medicine / Elisa J. Sobo and Martha O. Loustaunau.

Title
The cultural context of health, illness, and medicine / Elisa J. Sobo and Martha O. Loustaunau.
Author
Sobo, Elisa Janine, 1963-
Publication
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010.

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Additional Authors
Loustaunau, Martha O., 1938-
Description
xviii, 268 p.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Martha Loustaunau is first named author on previous edition.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The concept of culture -- The health-related consequences of social structure -- Health and illness over the life course -- Therapeutic modalities : a cross-cultural perspective -- Biomedicine : emergence and evolution in cultural context -- Reforming medicine -- Developing cultural sensitivity -- Putting ideas into practice : complex contemporary challenges.
ISBN
  • 9780313377600 (hard copy : alk. paper)
  • 031337760X (hard copy : alk. paper)
  • 9780313377853 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0313377855 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780313377617 (eISBN)
  • 0313377618 (eISBN)
LCCN
2010014928
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries