Research Catalog

Title

Concepts of health, illness, and disease : a comparative perspective / edited by Caroline Currer and Meg Stacey.

Publication

Leamington Spa ; New York : Berg, 1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Currer, Caroline.
• Stacey, Margaret.

Description

x, 324 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Health attitudes > Cross-cultural studies
• Diseases > Public opinion > Cross-cultural studies
• Health attitudes
• Diseases > Public opinion
• Cross-cultural studies
• Diseases
• Health
• Social medicine
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Disease
• Health
• Sociology, Medical
• Attitude to Health
• health
• Social medicine
• Diseases
• Cross-cultural studies
• Diseases > Public opinion
• Health attitudes
• Gesundheit
• Begriff
• Kulturvergleich
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Krankheitsbegriff
• Ziekte
• Gezondheid
• Ideeën
• Médecine > Études transculturelles
• Maladies > Études transculturelles
• Habitudes sanitaires > Études transculturelles
• médecine > système de santé > études diverses
• maladie > santé > études diverses

Genre/Form

• Collected Work
• Cross-cultural studies

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 300-314.

Contents

Introduction / Caroline Currer, Meg Stacey -- Concepts of health and illness and the division of labour in health care / Meg Stacey -- Concepts and a model for the comparison of medical systems as cultural systems / Arthur Kleinman -- The conceptual determination (uberformung) of individual and collective experiences of illness / Paul Unschuld -- Illness : from causes to meaning / Claudine Herzlich, Janine Pierret -- Competing ideologies of reproduction : medical and maternal perspective on pregnancy / Hilary Graham, Ann Oakley -- Concepts of health and illness in a Sepik society / Gilbert Lewis -- Internalising and externalising medical belief systems : an Ethiopian example / Allan Young -- Reactions of Samoan burn patients and families to severe burns / Joan Ablon -- Concepts of mental well- and ill-being : the case of Pathan mothers in Britain / Caroline Currer -- The underprivileged : a hundred years of their ideas about health and illness / Jeremy Seabrook -- 'Feed a cold, starve a fever' : folk models of infection in an English suburban community and their relation to medical treatment / Cecil G. Helman -- New research on the image of health / Alphonse d'Houtaud, Mark Field -- Concepts of illness causation and responsibility : some preliminary data from a sample of working-class mothers / Roisin Pill, Nigel Stott -- Two basic types of medical orientation / Magdalena Sokolowska -- Conclusion / Caroline Currer, Meg Stacey.

ISBN

• 0907582184
• 9780907582182
• 0907582192
• 9780907582199

LCCN

85020759

OCLC

• ocm12669529
• 12669529
• SCSB-649920

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library