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Culture and health : applying medical anthropology

Title
Culture and health : applying medical anthropology / Michael Winkelman.
Author
Winkelman, Michael.
Publication
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2009.

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Description
xxv, 480 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Medical anthropology
  • Social medicine
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-460) and index.
Contents
Applied medical anthropology and health care -- Disease, illness, sickness, and the sick role -- Cultural competence in health care -- Cultural systems models -- Ethnomedical systems and health care sectors -- Transcultural psychiatry and indigenous psychology -- Medical-ecological approaches to health -- Political economy and critical medical anthropology -- Psychobiological dynamics of health -- The shamanic paradigm of ethnomedicine.
ISBN
  • 9780470283554 (pbk.)
  • 0470283556 (pbk.)
LCCN
2008041500
OCLC
  • ocn257323823
  • SCSB-1498370
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library