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An ethnography of stress : the social determinants of health in aboriginal Australia / Victoria Katherine Burbank.
- Title
- An ethnography of stress : the social determinants of health in aboriginal Australia / Victoria Katherine Burbank.
- Author
- Burbank, Victoria Katherine
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RA418.3.A8 B87 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 219 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- This compelling ethnography makes new inquiries into the "anthropology of stress." Focusing on the implications of premature morbidity and mortality in Numbulwar, a remote Australian Aboriginal community, this book examines the social determinants of health and how forms of self-conceptions can mediate, and perhaps exacerbate, stressful experiences. Engaging essential frameworks and topics in medical and psychological anthropology, Victoria Katherine Burbank draws important new conclusions about the social sources of suffering.
- Series Statement
- Culture, mind, and society
- Uniform Title
- Culture, mind, and society
- Subject
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Anthropology, Cultural
- Sociology, Medical
- Minority Health > ethnology
- Stress, Psychological > ethnology
- Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander > ethnology
- Health > Social aspects > Australia > Case studies
- Social medicine > Australia > Case studies
- Indigenous people > Health and hygiene > Australia > Case studies
- Stress (Psychology) > Social aspects > Australia > Case studies
- Medical anthropology > Australia > Case studies
- Indigenous peoples > Health and hygiene > Australia > Case studies
- HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues
- MEDICAL > Public Health
- MEDICAL > Health Policy
- HEALTH & FITNESS > General
- MEDICAL > Diseases
- MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery
- Health > Social aspects
- Indigenous peoples > Health and hygiene
- Medical anthropology
- Social medicine
- Stress (Psychology) > Social aspects
- Northern Territory
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction: Using Social Determinants of Health, Using Ethnography -- ch. 2 At Numbulwar: Blackfellas and Whitefellas -- ch. 3 Life History and Real Life: Fetal Origins of Disease, Ethnography, and History -- ch. 4 Feeling Bad: Everyday Stress -- ch. 5 Identity -- ch. 6 Selves and Others -- ch. 7 Conclusion: A Tentative Answer to a Fundamental Epidemiological Question.
- ISBN
- 9780230110229 (alk. paper)
- 0230110223 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010023205
- OCLC
- 642509247
- SCSB-10659126
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library