Natalie Tobert

Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing

Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Providing much needed understandings of cultural differences in attitudes and beliefs towards issues such as illness, death and mental health, this book is a remedy against the cultural dissonance occurring at present between Western medical systems and their increasingly diverse patients, in order to facilitate integrated and suitable care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781785920844
• ISBN-10: 1785920847
• Artikelnr.: 44990309

Autorenporträt

Natalie Tobert, PhD, is a medical anthropologist who has done original research in India, Sudan and the UK. She has been leading workshops and training on different cultural understandings of health for the past twenty years. Natalie lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Preface. Part 1: Introduction. 1. Consensual Reality,
Spirituality and Religion. 2. Culture, Nationality and Ethnicity. 3.
Cultural Beliefs about Health and Illness. 4. The Human Body. 5. Beliefs
about Conception and Human Identity. 6. Women's Bodies and Human Behaviour.
7. Cultural U-turns and Changing Responses to Consensus. Part 2: 8.
Cultural Knowledge on Death and Dying. 9. Cultural Beliefs about Survival
Beyond Death. 10. Anomalous Experiences: A. Religious and Spiritual
Experiences. 11. Anomalous Experiences: B. NDE, OBE, ELE. 12. Anomalous
Experiences: C. Cultural Interpretations of Mental Health. 13. Anomalous
Experiences: D. Popular Uprising and Spiritual Awakening. 14. Anomalous
Experiences: E. Deliberate Shifts in Consciousness. 15. Why Address
Cultural Understandings and Academic Fixity?. 16. Acknowledging Dissonance
as a Way Forward. 17. Towards Positive Change. Bibliography.